India pushing to deny Muslims same rights as other Indian citizens: Pakistan.

UNITED NATIONS -- A Pakistani delegate hit back at India on Friday for portraying as 'hate speech' the remarks made earlier by Pakistan while highlighting in the UN General Assembly the Indian atrocities in Jammu and Kashmir.

'It is startling that those whose very identity is based on peddling supremacist ideologies, neo-fascist beliefs, bigotry and intolerance; whose singular accomplishment is to denude India of any pretense of its secular credentials, have the audacity to lecture others on 'hate speech',' Jehanzeb Khan, first secretary at the Pakistan Mission to the UN, told the 193-member assembly.

He was exercising his right of reply to India's diplomat K Nagaraj Naidu who angrily reacted to a speech delivered by Pakistani representative Saad Ahmed Warraich that called on the UN Security Council to implement its own resolutions on the decades-old Kashmir dispute and to the suffering of Kashmiri people.

The exchange took place during the General Assembly's debate on the 'Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization.'

Naidu, the Indian diplomat, accused Pakistan of 'spewing venom' against India and indulging in 'bellicose and vitriolic diatribe'.

Exercising his right of reply, Jehanzeb Khan, the Pakistani delegate, said the 'mothership' of the ruling BJP in India - the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is a fascist organization which endorsed Hitler's aim to'purify' the 'Aryan race' by eliminating the Jews, pointing out that its leaders have advocated similar 'cleansing' of Muslims and other minorities from India's 'Aryan' Hindu population.

'For these purveyors of bigotry and hatred, it is indeed gratifying that one of their most promising prodigies, whose hands are...

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