Raja Zafaru­l Haq says India’s claims of being secula­r and inclus­ive state laid bareISLAMABAD: The situation for religious minorities in India was becoming increasingly hostile amid fresh aggression under the foil of nationalism. Resilience: Kashmiris will not be cowed by IndiaThis was expressed by speakers from Pakistan and abroad during a day-long seminar on ‘pluralism versus exclusionism: the case of rising extremism in India’ organised by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) at a local hotel on Thursday. Referring to the state of affairs in neighbouring India, Haq said that rising extremism across the Radcliffe line was an indicator of a democracy skewing from its core principles of equality. Even the Muslims in Indian-occupied Kashmir was persistently being repressed for the past 70 years, he added. Published in The Express Tribune, February 23rd, 2018.

Source: The Express Tribune February 23, 2018 05:48 UTC