'Ironic that Islamabad is talking about minority rights': India slams Pakistan FM remarks at UN
India"s Srinivas Gotru said that it is ironic that Islamabad itself has "committed a grievous violation of minority rights," is speaking about the rights of minorities.
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New York, Sept 22: Slamming Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari over minority rights or Kashmir issue remarks, India's Joint Secretary of UNES (UN Economic and Social) Srinivas Gotru said that it is ironic that Islamabad itself has "committed a grievous violation of minority rights," is speaking about the rights of minorities.
While speaking at the UN High-Level Meeting on the Rights of Minorities, the Indian diplomat said, "It is ironic that Pakistan is speaking about the rights of minorities. For a country that has even stopped publishing its data to hide its same shameful record, it is amazing that they have even brought up this subject. It has a long history of having committed a grievous violation of minority rights that the world has ever seen."
Gotru said that Pakistan continues to commit grave violations of the rights of Sikhs, Hindus, Christians, and Ahmadis. He also said that in Pakistan, 1000s of women and children, particularly girls from minority communities, have been subjected to abductions, forced marriages and convergence.
"The entire Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh were, our and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India, irrespective of what the representative of Pakistan believes or covets. We call on Pakistan to stop cross-border terrorism so that our citizens can exercise their right to life, and liberty. We hope that they will desist from attempts to abuse and politicize such meetings," he added.
Earlier, Pakistan's Foreign Minister at the UN made false claims that India is transforming into a Hindu supremacist state and raked the issue of Kashmir. "Unfortunately, there is a state where the minority rights are being suppressed," he said. He added that minorities are being suppressed in this state under its policy. "India was once a secular state, but now it's becoming a Hindu-dominated country."
Bilawal said Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Hindutva ideology is being promoted in India, which has fuelled violence against its two billion Muslim minority in the country. "India's Muslim minority is the largest in the world and Muslims are killed by mobs over the issue of cows," he added.