India vs Pakistan on minority rights

When Bilawal Bhutto Zardari took on India on secularism, he received this strongly worded response.

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00:00Mr. President, the RSS hate-filled Hindutva ideology has unleashed a reign of fear and

00:06violence against India's 200 million strong Muslim minority, the largest minority in the world.

00:13It is ironic that Pakistan is speaking about the rights of minorities.

00:19For a country that has even stopped publishing its data

00:22to hide its same shameful record, it is amazing that they have even brought up this subject.

00:30India is a multi-lingual, multi-ethnic and multi-religious society.

00:57The constitution of India guarantees protection and promotion of rights of all minority communities.

01:04It is a fundamental right given to citizens to conserve his or her distinct language,

01:10script or culture.

01:12Mr. President, the RSS hate-filled Hindutva ideology has unleashed a reign of fear and

01:18violence against India's 200 million strong Muslim minority, the largest minority in the world.

01:26It is ironic that Pakistan is speaking about the rights of minorities.

01:31For a country that has even stopped publishing its data to hide its same shameful record,

01:37it is amazing that they have even brought up this subject.

01:41It has a long history of having committed the gravest violations of minority rights

01:45that the world has ever seen.

01:572002, discriminatory citizenship laws to purge India of Muslims,

02:03demolishing of homes and shops of Muslim communities under state patronage,

02:08storming of mosques by charged mobs,

02:11disinformation campaigns against Islam and Muslims on social media,

02:16bans on hijab, incitement to hatred and violence against Muslims in the political discourse,

02:22and a campaign to destroy mosques across India and obliterate its Muslim heritage and history.

02:28An increasingly frequent public's calls for genocide against Muslims.

02:33We know that what Pakistan has done to its minorities, it has decimated them.

02:39Some of these minorities have become extinct within Pakistan.

02:43Even today, Pakistan continues to commit grave violations of the rights of Sikhs,

02:48Hindus, Christians, and the Ahmadiyyas.

02:51Thousands of women and children, particularly girls from minority communities,

02:57have been subjected to abductions, forced marriages and conversions within Pakistan.

03:01Not only Muslims in the Indian homeland,

03:05but the only Muslim majority area in the region under their control,

03:10Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

03:13The occupying forces pursue a policy to attempt to transform

03:19the Muslim majority into a minority in their homeland.

03:24The entire union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh

03:27were, are, and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India,

03:33irrespective of what the representative of Pakistan believes or covets.

03:38We call on Pakistan to stop cross-border terrorism

03:41so that our citizens can exercise their right to life and liberty.

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