Pakistan has summoned India’s Charge d’Affaires to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and conveyed the federal government’s grave concern on the ban on Muslim lady college students from sporting hijab in Karnataka.
The Foreign Office stated in a press release late on Wednesday that the Indian diplomat was conveyed Pakistan’s deep concern over alleged non secular intolerance, damaging stereotyping, stigmatisation and discrimination in opposition to Muslims in India.
It was emphasised that the Indian authorities should maintain the perpetrators of harassment in opposition to girls in Karnataka to account and take satisfactory measures to make sure the protection, safety and well-being of Muslim girls, the assertion stated.
The Foreign Office assertion got here after Pakistan’s senior ministers waded into the continued hijab row in Karnataka on Wednesday, with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi saying that depriving Muslim women of training is a grave violation of elementary human rights.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Hussain stated what was happening in India was worrying and emphasised that sporting hijab is a private alternative simply as another costume and residents have to be given free alternative.
Reacting to the tweets of the Pakistani ministers, Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi stated in New Delhi on Wednesday that some persons are giving “communal colour” to a call on costume code and self-discipline of establishments as a part of their “conspiracy to defame India’s inclusive culture”.
Naqvi additionally shot again saying Pakistan, which is a “jungle of crime and cruelty” for minorities, is preaching India on tolerance and secularism.
The actuality is that the socio-educational-religious rights of minorities are being trampled openly in Pakistan, Naqvi informed reporters in New Delhi. Equal rights, dignity and prosperity of the minorities, together with Muslims, is part of India’s dedication to tolerance, concord and inclusivity, he asserted.
The hijab controversy first erupted in January at a authorities Pre-University College in Udupi, the place six college students who attended lessons sporting headscarves in violation of the stipulated costume code had been requested to go away the campus. It later unfold to different components of the state with Hindu college students too responding by turning up in saffron shawls.