23 Nov 2024
Wednesday 4 March 2020 - 14:52
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Pakistan supports Irans censuring of organized anti-Muslim violence in India

Press TV - Pakistans Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has supported Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarifs condemnation of organized violence against Muslims in India.

In a Twitter message on Tuesday, Qureshi said he fully share[d] the concerns expressed by my brother Zarif.

Fully share the concerns expressed by my brother @JZarif on safety and well-being of Indian Muslims facing naked violence from RSS mobs. India is in throes of grave communal violence. Their sinister & systematic killing of Muslims is inhuman & dangerous for whole region, Qureshi wrote, referring to an Indian right-wing paramilitary organization.

Foreign Minister Zarif had posted a tweet of his own a day earlier condemning the recent deadly atrocities against Indian Muslims by pro-government Hindu mobs.

Zarifs statement was made in reaction to the brutal killing of dozens and wounding of hundreds of Indian Muslims by Hindu mobs in India in the recent weeks.

Indian authorities later on Tuesday summoned Irans Ambassador to India Ali Chegeni to file strong protest over Zarifs tweet.'

The latest anti-Muslim violence in India began amid widespread protests across the populous country over a citizenship law that Prime Minister Narendra Modis Hindu nationalist government introduced in December last year, offering a path to Indian citizenship for six religious groups from neighboring countries, specifically excluding Muslims.

Critics say the law is discriminatory, coming in the wake of other severe government measures against the countrys Muslim population, such as the withdrawal of autonomy for Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir.

According to the UK-basedIndependentnewspaper, Hindu nationalist mobs roamed the streets of New Delhi on February 23, burning and looting mosques together with Muslim homes, shops and businesses.

They killed or burned alive Muslimswho could not escape and the victims were largely unprotected by the police, the daily said in a Friday article, underlining that dozens of Muslims were killed and many others beaten half to death including a two-year-old baby that was stripped by a gang to see if he was circumcised, as Muslims usually are butHindusare not.

Iranian people, university students, and seminarists held a protest rally in front of the Indian Embassy in Irans capital of Tehran on Tuesday to condemn the recent massacre of scores of Muslims by Hindu mobs.
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