Pakistan has expressed “grave concern” on commentary from Indian Home Minister Amit Shah attesting to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s(BJP) “direct involvement” in anti-Muslim violence 2002 Gujarat screams.
Shah on Friday said that as principal minister of Gujarat in 2002, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had tutored an assignment to “anti-social rudiments”.
“They tried to produce a problem for Narendra Bhai(Modi), but he tutored them such an assignment that they’ve not dared to do anything till 2022,” Shah had said while addressing an election rally in Mahudha city of Kheda quarter. “The BJP government has established peace in Gujarat.”
The Foreign Office(FO), in a press release issued moment, said that Shah’s reflections as well as those of former Gujarat chief minister Shankersinh Vaghela corroborated and verified “Pakistan’s long-standing assertion that the BJP-led government under the peremptory high minister was directly responsible for picking violence and butchery of Muslims”.
“It’s utmost deplorable that the crimes against humanity, targeting Muslims, were executed solely for BJP’s political earnings.
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“Regrettably, the BJP formerly again seeks to cash in on its divisive programs two decades after the Gujarat tragedy,” the press release reads.
The FO refocused that the current Indian government’s treatment of nonages, particularly Muslims, was “discriminative, demeaning and full of hate and violence”.
It further noted that the Indian Supreme Court “handed a clean virgin” to Modi this time for his part in the Gujarat screams and shut down as numerous as 11 desires, including one filed by the National Human Rights Commission of India, seeking an independent inquiry into the screams.
“It’s an inarguable fact that India’s peremptory high minister had been banned from entering countries similar to the United States till 2014, because of his bottomless mortal rights record as principal minister of the Gujarat state”.
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“Sorely, the entire Indian legal and executive ministry is blindly pursuing the Hindutva-driven docket of the ruling BJP-RSS(Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) nexus, where perpetrators of hate and violence are defended by law and enjoy the exalted status, whereas religious nonages are constantly hovered and denied the freedom to exercise their faith without fear, while their lives, property, and places of deification remain under trouble of violation,” the FO remarked.
It added that India must incontinently constitute an independent inquiry commission to bring the lawbreakers of the Godhra and Gujarat screams to justice.
The FO also called on the Indian government to ensure that nonage rights in the country were shielded and their lives defended.
“Pakistan also calls upon the transnational community, particularly mortal rights activists and protectors, to take serious note of the aggravating situation of Islamophobia in India,” the FO added.
