Masood urges Christian leaders to raise voice for oppressed people of IOK.

ISLAMABAD -- Sardar Masood Khan, President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, has urged Christian leaders to raise their voice for the oppressed people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and against the rising tide of Hindu nationalism, which is an equal threat for Muslims, Christians and other religious minorities in India.

He made these remarks while talking to a delegation led by Dr. Leif Hetland, Founder President

of Global Mission Awareness, a US-based organization of churches around the world, who called on him here on Sunday. Others members of the delegation included Dr. Marqqus Fida,

Chairman Global Mission Awareness, Pakistan, Mr, Fred Vernor Bruner JR and Saeed-ur- Rehman Siddiqui, President Peace Group of Journalists. The AJK President said that after the phenomenon of Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism, now, Hindutva in our neighbourhood has become a serious threat to harmony and peaceful co- existence of the followers of different religions and faiths.

The President said that Hindu extremists consider Indian Muslims as aliens, intruders and invaders whose very existence was repugnant to the natural order of Indian society and thus treat them as inferiors. This kind of belief had previously emerged in Germany under the Nazi regime back in the 20th century and resulted in a disastrous war and holocaust. The same, he said, is now being repeated in South Asian region.

Apprising the...