Hinduism being masqueraded as secularism in India : AJK President:.

MIRPUR (AJK) -- Azad Jammu Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan has said that after grudgingly accepting the independence of Pakistan, India adopted a secular doctrine.

This concept, he said, was an insincere attempt as this was nothing but Hinduism mascaraed as secularism.

The president made these remarks while addressing two separate web-conferences organized by the Institute of Policy Studies on the topic of 'India: Past, Present and Future: Perceptions of the Muslim World'; and by the Pakistan High Commission UK on the topic 'Seeking Justice for Kashmiri Victims of Sexual Violence and Physical Torture, and Widows', AJK Presidential secretariat told media on Saturday.

Speaking at the IPS Session - which was attended by leading international experts from the United States, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Nigeria - the president said Hindu fascists romanticized an imaginary state of Akhand Baharat that they claimed to have existed before the arrival of Muslim rulers in the Sub-continent. This notion, he said, was not only unsubstantiated by history, it is also counterintuitive.

Referring to the l secularism adopted by India, the AJK president said that over the decades, this glue of secularism had has come off and the real face of the India's political masters had been exposed. Not long after Independence, on 27 October 1947 India began working on its imperialistic agenda, and invaded the Jammu and Kashmir State. Driven by its Hindu-extremist policy, India had carried on with this agenda over the years, he added.

Masood Khan said that lawmakers and the leadership of BJP, the RSS and their affiliates had publically declared that they would do away with Muslims from within India. This, he said, has caught the attention of Hindu zealots from across India which had consequently impacted the larger political landscape of India.

This BJP-RSS nexus has waged three wars in the region; one against its minorities inside its own borders, the second one against Kashmiris in the occupied territory of Kashmir and the third one against all its neighbouring countries. Considering Pakistan as enemy number one, they have threatened to wipe off Pakistan from the face of the earth by the use of nuclear weapons, he informed.

President Masood Khan said that India's ambition of becoming a colonial and imperial power in the region had led it to using the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh for sabotaging the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It has also...