India's Muslim MPs.

Byline: Khalid Masood - Rawalpindi

EIGHT million Muslims in India-held Kashmir have been under a lockdown for over 60 days. But no Muslim MPs sought the permission of the India government or Supreme Court to visit them.

Sitaram Yechury, a socialist leader, wanted to visit the valley to see his party colleague Yousuf Tarigami of CPI-M. Upon the government's refusal, he obtained the Supreme Court's permission to do so.

Let Pakistanis know that 180 million Muslims in India have no real leader, only sordid muckrakers. The self-styled Muslim leaders largely supported the abrogation of special status (Article 370) and hereditary rights (Article 35-A) for petty gains.

They include Arshad Madani, Barrister Asaduddin Owaisi (All India Majlise-Ittahdul Muslimeen), Maulana Mehmood Madani, general-secretary of Deoband's Jamiat-Ulema-i-Hind (council of Indian Muslim theologians), and his uncle Arshad Madani, the president of the same council, Ahmad...

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