India, July 31 -- India on Friday asked for Pakistan's actions in occupied Kashmir (PoK) to be scrutinised and Islamabad be held accountable for the "ruthless" crackdown on protesters in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) this week.

Ministry of external affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, addressing the weekly media briefing, claimed that Pakistan's Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs had acknowledged that militants trained and armed by Pakistan to target India had now turned against the Pakistani state.

"The Special Assistant of the Prime Minister (of Pakistan) on Political Affairs has openly admitted that the very Mujahideen that the Pakistani establishment trained, funded, armed, and sent to I...