ISLAMABAD, March 3: While addressing at a panel discussion on ‘India: A Largest Democracy or a Fake Union?’ organized by the Institute of Regional Studies, Farrukh Habib, State Minister for Information and Broadcasting said that ‘India’s official news agency has now become a mouthpiece of BJP that consistently spreading false and misleading information about Pakistan’. Commenting on Indian’s discriminatory attitude towards minorities, he said that ‘it was the very reason the Sikh community is demanding separation from India’. Referendum by Sikhs, in this regard, clearly demonstrate Sikh community’s resolve to have a separate state for them where they could enjoy religious, political and social freedom, he stressed.
He further continued saying that even pro-Indian Kashmiri leadership in IIOK have expressed their anger over New Delhi’s unilateral action of sabotaging Kashmir’s autonomy. Mr Habib also told that participants that the Muslims girls in India especially in Gujrat, Rajasthan, and Karnataka were not feeling secure after the incidents of harassments cases of Hijab wearing girls appeared on media. Concluding his talk, State Minister said that Pakistani youth, academicians, journalists and people from all walks of life need to work in tandem to dislodge Indian propaganda against Pakistan.
While speaking on the occasion, Ambassador Asif Ali Khan Durrani said that the very foundation of India was secular and literally non-religious in its entirety. ‘Article 25 to 28 of Indian constitution provide all its citizens a right to practice his or her own religion, he added. Amb. Durrani argued that it was India’s constitution that kept the people of India united for a very long time but today the situation has changed altogether. He also said that the Babri mosque was the symbol of religious freedom and equality in India that was unfortunately succumbed to hyper-nationalist forces. Amb. Durrani warned that rising racism in India would further consolidate polarization in Indian polity and society which ultimately affect the whole region in a considerable manner. -PR
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