Pakistan, as well as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), has denounced the malicious Islamophobic campaign in India demonizing Muslims for the spread of coronavirus infection besides the negative campaign in the media leading to discrimination and violence.
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PM Khan followed up on tweets by the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of the OIC on the issue and compared the Indian government’s treatment of Muslims with the Nazis.
The deliberate & violent targeting of Muslims in India by Modi Govt to divert the backlash over its COVID19 policy, which has left thousands stranded & hungry, is akin to what Nazis did to Jews in Gerrmany. Yet more proof of the racist Hindutva Supremacist ideology of Modi Govt.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) April 19, 2020
In a tweet, the OIC-IPHRC prompted the Modi government to take necessary steps to stop the growing tide of Islamophobia in India and protect the rights of its persecuted Muslim minority as per its obligations under international human rights law.
1/2 #OIC-IPHRC condemns the unrelenting vicious #Islamophobic campaign in #India maligning Muslims for spread of #COVID-19 as well as their negative profiling in media subjecting them to discrimination & violence with impunity.
— OIC-IPHRC (@OIC_IPHRC) April 19, 2020
2/2 #OIC-IPHRC urges the #Indian Govt to take urgent steps to stop the growing tide of #Islamophobia in India and protect the rights of its persecuted #Muslim minority as per its obligations under int"l HR law.
— OIC-IPHRC (@OIC_IPHRC) April 19, 2020
Also, PM Imran Khan hit out at his Indian counterpart for “targeting” the minority Muslim community, describing it as an attempt to divert backlash from coronavirus lockdown, “which has left thousands hungry”.
Indian authorities have blamed the Muslim Tableeghi Jamaat members for spreading the coronavirus cases in the country.
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Meanwhile, President Arif Alvi shared data on India’s “torture and suppression” in Jammu and Kashmir. “There is one ventilator for every 71,000 people, one doctor for every 3,900 people, and one soldier for every nine people in the Muslim-majority region,” President Alvi claimed.
