By Asghar Ali Mubarak
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Tuesday cautioned India of an internal strife if it continued persecuting Muslims under its Hindutva ideology, based on racism and hate.
“The future of peace within India greatly depends upon the treatment it metes out to its minorities, particularly Muslims,” the President said at the International Conference on ‘Institutionalization of Hindutva in India: A Regional Security Perspective’.
The conference organized by the International Relations Department of the National Defence University (NDU) gathered intellectuals from the United States, China, Iran, Germany and Pakistan to deliberate upon the global rise of Islamophobia in the local perspective of Hindutva extremism.
He said India in its historic outlook had never been a country, but a combination of over 500 princely states that could even crumble today if did not stop genocide and persecution of minorities. President Alvi said Hindutva ideology was being promoted under the patronage of Modi regime, which would create violence and unrest in Indian society, adding that resultantly India would blame Pakistan for its flawed and extremist policies.
He stated that the brutalities against Muslims and their ethnic cleansing in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) was the practical manifestation of Hindutva policies.
He said India’s recently amended “Citizenship Act, reflected the prejudiced mindset of Hindutva which aimed at changing the demography of the Muslim-majority Kashmir. He regretted that such acts on part of the Modi regime were amounting to “ethnic cleansing” that required the special attention of the world to build pressure on India to stop committing human rights violations in IIOJK.
Dr Alvi said the world, due to its vested interests, was not seriously taking the disturbing situation in IIOJK.
“We want the international community to see the ‘true colours’ of India, that reflect an open hatred against Muslims,” he said. He pointed out that the Muslims constituted almost 15 percent of Indian population, but regrettably, they had been kept deprived of their due representation in the Indian parliament as well as their share in the government’s jobs. He said that India could not tolerate other minorities, particularly Muslims, and thus wanted to rewrite history by erasing the contributions done by the Muslims for India.
