NEW DELHI: Pakistan on Monday “strongly condemned” what it described because the current spree of violence and focused assaults towards Muslims in India. The provocation for the assertion was the incident in Jahangirpuri the place, Islamabad mentioned, a “despicable” try was made to hoist a flag at a mosque.
Whereas there was no official response from India, authorities sources mentioned Pakistan ought to have a look at its personal report of getting persecuted persistently its ethnic and non secular minorities. Islamabad’s feedback got here amid hypothesis, following PM Narendra Modi’s congratulatory messages to his Pakistan counterpart Shehbaz Sharifand the latter’s response, a few potential assembly between the leaders on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Tashkent in July.
India authorities sources mentioned although it was too early to speak a few summit-level assembly and that there was no formal proposal for a gathering but. Whereas each leaders referred to as for constructive engagement, additionally they underlined the importance of first addressing what they noticed as core points — terrorism for India and J&Okay for Pakistan.
India and Pakistan haven’t had any substantive bilateral engagement since December 2015 after they launched the great bilateral dialogue course of. This although was nipped within the bud by the Pathankot airbase terror assault that befell weeks later.
In its assertion, Pakistan referred to as upon the worldwide group, significantly the UN and related worldwide human rights and humanitarian organisations to carry India accountable for its “gross human rights violations towards minorities, significantly Muslims”.
Whereas there was no official response from India, authorities sources mentioned Pakistan ought to have a look at its personal report of getting persecuted persistently its ethnic and non secular minorities. Islamabad’s feedback got here amid hypothesis, following PM Narendra Modi’s congratulatory messages to his Pakistan counterpart Shehbaz Sharifand the latter’s response, a few potential assembly between the leaders on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Tashkent in July.
India authorities sources mentioned although it was too early to speak a few summit-level assembly and that there was no formal proposal for a gathering but. Whereas each leaders referred to as for constructive engagement, additionally they underlined the importance of first addressing what they noticed as core points — terrorism for India and J&Okay for Pakistan.
India and Pakistan haven’t had any substantive bilateral engagement since December 2015 after they launched the great bilateral dialogue course of. This although was nipped within the bud by the Pathankot airbase terror assault that befell weeks later.
In its assertion, Pakistan referred to as upon the worldwide group, significantly the UN and related worldwide human rights and humanitarian organisations to carry India accountable for its “gross human rights violations towards minorities, significantly Muslims”.
