ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office (FO) has summoned a senior diplomat of the High Commission of India on Thursday and conveyed Pakistan’s categorical rejection of the “mischievous spin” given by India to an isolated incident involving an individual at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib.
According to a statement issued by the Foreign Office (FO), “It was conveyed to the Indian diplomat that the incident was swiftly addressed and clarified.”
The statement further maintained that the Pakistani Government “accords the highest primacy to the rights of the minorities,” and that the “sanctity of religious places and revered sites of every community is ensured in Pakistan”.
The FO said the Indian diplomat was instead told to urge the Indian government to investigate the incidents of “gross and systematic persecution of minorities” in India which continue with “impunity and state complicity”.
“Given its systematic marginalization and brutalisation of minorities, India has no locus standi to even feign concern for minorities elsewhere,” the FO maintained.
It further said that Indian authorities must focus on ensuring effective protection of their own minorities and places of worship from repeated instances of desecration, hate crimes and mob lynching.
The statement came in reference to a photoshoot at the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, for which the model later apologised, for “hurting the sentiments of the Sikh community”.
Modelling bareheaded for ladies’ attire, in the premises of Gurdwara Sri Darbar Sahib at #KartarpurSahib in Pakistan, by a Lahorite woman, has several hurt the religious sentiments of Sikhs. Further the pictures were uploaded on social media.@ImranKhanPTI @MORAisbOfficial pic.twitter.com/i5RX01kWGo
— Ravinder Singh Robin ਰਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ رویندرسنگھ روبن (@rsrobin1) November 29, 2021
A clothing brand recently came under fire after an alleged photoshoot at the Kartarpur Corridor. The shoot was pointed out by prominent Indian Sikh journalist, Ravinder Singh Robin. In the shoot, a model can be seen bareheaded, posing for the camera, compromising the sanctity of the place.
