Ambassador Asim urges India to distance itself from Islamophobic incidents, punish those responsible for such actsAmbassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN. “The fact remains that India has the distinction of being the world’s biggest Islamophobic state, which has turned against its own minorities including Muslims, Christians and others,” Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations, told the General Assembly. He accused Pakistan of mistreating its minorities and fabricating narratives of Islamophobia, as well as weaponising the OIC against India. Referring to the OIC’s Report on Islamophobia, Ahmad said India represented the most significant concentration of Islamophobic incidents globally. “While Muslims constitute the largest minority group suffering from hate crimes, other religious minorities are not spared either,” he added.

Source: The Express Tribune March 17, 2026 13:38 UTC