Religious intolerance in India.

Byline: SARFRAZ SOOMRO - Shikarpur

The US State Department has stated that religious intolerance in India is growing under PM Modi's government. In response, India has said that a foreign government has no right to comment on the country's internal affairs. Moreover, a 10-minute-long video of a brutal lynching emerged recently on Indian social media and has left Indian Muslims shocked. The footage shows a group of men beating a 22-year-old Muslim man, Tabrez Ansari, in the Eastern state of Jharkhand. The crowd forced him to shout 'Jai Shri Ram' (Hail Lord Ram). Ansari died at the hospital on Saturday, the same day the US State Department released its International Religious Freedom Report, which highlights the grave situation that religious minorities face in India.

The US State Department claimed, 'There were reports of religiously motivated killings, assaults, riots...