Protect rights of minorities, India tells Pak Prime Minister

New Delhi: India on Tuesday invoked the spirit of 1971 and advised Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to protect and promote the rights of its own minorities and co-religionists.

In response to a statement by Pakistan Prime Minister at the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said: “Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has once again peddled familiar falsehoods at a multilateral platform to advance his narrow political agenda by making gratuitous and unwarranted remarks on matters entirely internal to India. It should now be clear to the entire world that this is an established pattern of his habitual and compulsive abuse of global forums.”

“Over the past 72 years, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has systematically persecuted all of its minorities...”