Daily Times

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has condemned India for not granting visa to its Muslim minority members to come to Pakistan to attend the urs of Hazart Shah Rukn-e-Alam, which concluded here on Friday.

While holding prayers at the concluding ceremony of the urs, he said a large number of people belonging to ‘Jamaat Ghousia’ live in India, who are facing difficulties due to the Narendra Modi government policies.

While criticisng the Indian government policies, Qureshi said hurdles are being created for the Indian Muslims deliberately. He said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ideology of Hindutva has deprived Muslims of their constitutional and lawful rights. He said that entire region including Pakistan has been facing difficulties due to Indian government’s policies. “A lot of problems have been emerging in the Middle East, which are also affecting Pakistan,” he added.

Referring to situation in Indian-held Kashmir, the foreign minister said the people of the occupied valley are passing through the worst phase of their lives as they are not safe even inside their own houses. He said their schools and seminaries have not been saved, depicting a grim picture in the occupied valley. He prayed that may Almighty Allah protect beliefs of neighbouring Muslims, lives of people of Kashmir from aggression of occupational armed forces.

He prayed for maintaining solidarity of the country, protection of its boundaries from all elements posing threat to it.