PTI, members of minorities, to take out rally against Indian citizenship law.

HYDERABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) parliamentary leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Shaikh announced on Sunday that members of minorities especially Hindus would take out a rally on Jan 5 to express solidarity with minorities of India, especially Muslims, and condemn India's Citizenship Amendment Bill.

'The PTI activists along with Hindus and other minorities will stage a rally that will begin from famous Rama Pir temple in Tando Allahyar and go to the Indian border of Khokhrapar on Jan 5, to express solidarity with Indian minorities, especially Muslims,' he said.

Shaikh said at a press conference at local press club on Sunday that in theory India had done away with citizenship of all non-Hindu Indians who had migrated to the country after 1948 but in practice the bill purely targeted Muslims.

He said that Narendra Modi had emerged as a new Hitler and warned that India was gearing up for genocide of Muslims. Its ugly face had now been fully exposed before the world and untold atrocities and heinous crimes were being committed by Indian paramilitary forces in occupied Kashmir, he said.

He said that religious places and properties of Muslims were being systematically targeted in Kashmir, Gujarat, Assam and other Indian states and there was great unrest and civil war like situation throughout India.

'In Pakistan, all religious minorities enjoy full rights without any fear as they are free to fulfill their religious practices and go to their worship places such as temples, churches and others,' he said.

He stressed that all Sindhis, Tharis and Hindus were more united than...

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