Muslim minority not safe in India today: FM Qureshi

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has expressed that international human rights organizations should take notice of the atrocities taking place in India.

While talking about the persecution of Muslims in India, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that the incident in the Indian city of Bangalore has hurt the feelings of Muslims. “The Muslim minority is not safe in India today,” he said.

He said that it was not right to destroy a mosque and make it a temple while in India there are many Muslims being killed and arrested. “International human rights organizations should take note of this incident,” the foreign minister maintained.

The foreign minister said that the secular state has been buried by the Indian government. He said that atrocities against Muslims in India are not it’s an internal issue but a matter of humanity and Pakistan has the right to raise this issue.

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Moreover, Pakistan has urged foreign ministers for convening the meeting of the 57-member bloc of Muslim countries, the second largest intergovernmental body after the UN since India scrapped Jammu and Kashmir’s special status last August.