Pakistan Condemns Brutal Treatment Of Muslims Protesting In India.

Pakistan has strongly condemned the heavy-handed treatment by the Indian authorities of Muslims who were registering a peaceful protest over the blasphemous remarks of the two members of the ruling political party BJP against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

In a statement, Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said this is a new low in the Indian government's repressive 'Hindutva' inspired majoritarian policy aimed at demonizing and persecuting minorities, especially Muslims.

It said Pakistan denounces this shameful treatment of Indian Muslim citizens by the Indian government and expresses its solidarity with the Muslims of India in these testing times.

The statement further said it is alarming that despite the global condemnation of the BJP officials' sacrilegious remarks, the Indian government's reaction has been muted, while on the other hand the BJP-RSS regime has persisted in its Islamophobic actions...