India must be held accountable for its deplorable acts against humanity: Hasham bin Saddique.

ISLAMABAD -- President Islamabad Policy Research Institute (PRI) Ambassador Vice Admiral (retd) Khan Hasham bin Saddique stressed that the international community cannot turn a blind eye until another full-blown pogrom unfolds, with millions forced out of their homes, ravished and butchered, saying that India must be held accountable for its deplorable acts against humanity. 'Institutionalized anti-Muslim atrocities have now systematically made their way from Indian Occupied Kashmir to mainland India,' he warned.

In a Symposium on Fallout of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 and National Population Register (NPR), organized by the Islamabad Policy Research Institute, here in the capital on Monday, speakers discussed as to how the CAA is the latest move in a series of steps taken by Indian Prime Minster Modi as part of his agenda to promote Hindu nationalism in a constitutionally secular India. Speakers pointed out that the CAA and NPR not only threatens India's secular foundations, it will also marginalize its 200 million Muslim minority population, according to a press release issued on Monday.

India is a fascist regime and flagrant violator of International law and human rights. Under the guise of the CAA and NPR, the history of the Holocaust could repeat itself to justify religious discrimination against Muslims in India, by not extending equal protection to all persons including Muslim migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, India is in violation of its International law and human rights obligations, the speakers said.

Modi wants to rule with an iron fist by establishing a totalitarian regime. NPR has raised serious concerns from not only civil rights activists but also ordinary Indians who see this as a grave infringement of their constitution, the speakers said.

This is a historic opportunity for Pakistan to reset the dynamic in its relationship with India. Pakistan should effectively use International Law as a foreign policy tool, and understand its central role in national security strategy and internal policy for shaping narratives, demanded at the symposium.

For BJP this serves as an opportunity to institutionalize the gains of soft Hindutva towards creating a hierarchical Hindu state tantamount to a second partition -social partition perpetuating greater conflict in the region, the speakers said.

The Symposium was moderated by President PRI Ambassador Vice Admiral (retd) Khan Hasham bin Saddique who stressed that...