Delhi's concern about Pakistani minorities termed mischievous.

ISLAMABAD -- The Foreign Office on Saturday dismissed as 'mischievous' Delhi's attempts at playing up isolated and fabricated incidents involving Pakistani minorities and warned that such negative tactics would not mask the plight of Indian minorities, who are being subjugated by extremist Hindus.

The FO said a senior diplomat from the High Commission of India was summoned for a demarche rejecting 'the mischievous portrayal by India of isolated, fabricated incidents involving Pakistani citizens as minorities' rights issues'.

The Indian diplomat was summoned a day after a Pakistani diplomat was called to India's External Affairs Ministry for protesting and conveying concerns over abduction of Hindu girls in Sindh. It was claimed that two Hindu girls, Shanti Meghwad and Sarmi Meghwad, from Tharparkar were abdAucted on Jan 14. In another incident, anoAther Hindu girl Mehak, was allegedly abducted from Jacobabad on Jan 15. The FO said the Indian diplomat was reminded that minorities in Pakistan enjoyed 'full protections and rights under the Constitution' and the legal system of Pakistan was fully capable of protecting their rights.

'Such machinations cannot divert attention from the criticism the Indian government is facing for its own discriminatory policies against minorities in India and the ongoing state terrorism in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ and K),' it further said.

FO summons Indian diplomat for demarche

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