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Islamabad : Pakistan's Foreign Office has rejected objection raised by India over Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi's telephone call to Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. The row started after Qureshi called Farooq on Tuesday and spoke about Islamabad's efforts to "highlight" the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir internationally. In reaction, India told Pakistan on Wednesday to lay off on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir and Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood. Gokhale condemned in "the strongest terms this latest brazen attempt by Pakistan to subvert...