President warns India of unrest if persecution of Muslims continues
July 7, 2021
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi cautioned India of an internal strife if it continued persecuting the Muslims under its Hindutva ideology, based on racism and hate.
The future of peace within India greatly depends upon the treatment it metes out to its minorities, particularly Muslims, the president said Tuesday at the International Conference on ‘Institutionalisation of Hindutva in India: A Regional Security Perspective’.
The conference, organised by the International Relations Department of the National Defence University (NDU), gathered intellectuals from the US, China, Iran, Germany and Pakistan to deliberate upon the global rise of Islamophobia in the local perspective of Hindutva extremism. He said India in its historic outlook had never been a country, but a combination of over 500 princely states that could even crumble today if it did not stop genocide and persecution of minorities. The president said the Hindutva ideology was being promoted under the patronage of Modi regime, which would create violence and unrest in the Indian society, and resultantly India would blame Pakistan for its flawed and extremist policies. The brutalities against Muslims and their ethnic cleansing in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K), he said, was the practical manifestation of Hindutva policies.