Pakistan on Tuesday condemned the “unjust demolition” of an ancient mosque in India’s Haryana state, calling it yet another attack on the human rights of India’s Muslim minority.
The statement of the Foreign Office has come according to Indian officials reports, demolished the Badi Bilal Masjid in Faridabad, Haryana, which is ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
FO spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmed said, “Pakistan strongly condemns the unjust demolition of the ancient Bilal Masjid in BJP-ruled Haryana by the Indian authorities in line with the liberal judiciary under the BJP-RSS rule.”
The statement called the “relentless targeting of Muslims and their places of worship” by the Hindutva-run BJP-RSS alliance “an indelible blot on the so-called ‘largest democracy'”.
It was recalled that in a controversial decision by the Supreme Court of India in November 2019 the permission An “extremist Hindu party” to build a Ram temple on the site of the historic Babri Masjid, which was demolished by Hindu extremists in 1992.
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“Indian judiciary was also guilty in this” acquitted The criminals had organized the destruction of Babri Masjid in public glare,” it added.
The FO further said that during the anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat and Delhi in 2002, Muslims and their places of worship were attacked “in connivance with the state”. in February 2020without any judicial accountability.
It said the targeting of Muslims and their religious places and cultural heritage continues “unabated” in occupied Kashmir and India.
The FO urged the international community, the United Nations, the OIC and related human rights organizations to “hold India accountable for the systemic and apparent human rights violations of minorities, especially Muslims.”
“We call upon India to ensure the safety, security and well-being of its minorities, including Muslims and their places of worship and cultural sites,” it said.
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