ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Saturday\u00a0categorically\u00a0rejecting the \u201ccompletely unwarranted assertions\u201d by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)\u00a0regarding the Hindu temple incident in Karak, asked India to focus\u00a0on\u00a0its persistent violations of minority rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGiven these incontrovertible facts, the Indian Government would be well advised to set its own house in order rather than feigning concern for minority rights elsewhere,\u201d the foreign office said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The foreign office said this was not the first time the Indian Government had tried to feign concern for minority rights elsewhere while being the \u201cmost egregious and persistent violator of minority rights itself\u201d. The statement mentioned that the <\/p>\n\n\n\n
India is in no position to pontificate on issue of minority rights elsewhere<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RSS-BJP regime\u2019s record was replete with instances of gross and systemic violations of the rights of minorities, in particular Muslims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It mentioned in this regard the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) to National Register of Citizens (NRC), from the Gujarat massacre of 2002 to the Delhi pogrom of 2020, from the reprehensible demolition of Babri Mosque in 1992 to the despicable acquittal of all the accused by Indian court in 2020 and from blaming Muslims for spreading Coronavirus to banning of inter-faith marriages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The foreign office stressed that India was involved in cow vigilantism, mob lynching besides terming the Muslims of West Bengal \u2018termites\u2019 and threatening to \u2018throw them into the Bay of Bengal\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Also, it pointed out that other illegal actions included extra-judicial killings of innocent Kashmiris and blatant attempts to turn Muslims into a minority in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) through distribution of \u2018fake domicile certificate\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs a perennial purveyor of state-sponsored discrimination against its minorities, India is in no position to pontificate on the issue of minority rights elsewhere,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The foreign office said the clear difference between India and Pakistan in respect of minority rights could be gauged from the fact that the accused in the Karak incident were immediately arrested, orders were issued for repair of the temple, the highest level of judiciary took immediate notice, and senior political leadership condemned the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It said that whereas in India, the blatant acts of discrimination against Muslims and other minorities take place with state complicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Indian leadership is yet to condemn the perpetrators of the Delhi massacre in February 2020, let alone bring those criminals to justice,\u201d the FO statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Saturday\u00a0categorically\u00a0rejecting the \u201ccompletely unwarranted assertions\u201d by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)\u00a0regarding the Hindu temple incident in Karak, asked India to focus\u00a0on\u00a0its persistent violations of minority rights. \u201cGiven these incontrovertible facts, the Indian Government would be well advised to set […]<\/p>\n
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