When Bilawal Bhutto Zardari took on India on secularism, he received this strongly worded response.
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00:00Mr. President, the RSS hate-filled Hindutva ideology has unleashed a reign of fear and
00:06violence against India's 200 million strong Muslim minority, the largest minority in the world.
00:13It is ironic that Pakistan is speaking about the rights of minorities.
00:19For a country that has even stopped publishing its data
00:22to hide its same shameful record, it is amazing that they have even brought up this subject.
00:30India is a multi-lingual, multi-ethnic and multi-religious society.
00:57The constitution of India guarantees protection and promotion of rights of all minority communities.
01:04It is a fundamental right given to citizens to conserve his or her distinct language,
01:10script or culture.
01:12Mr. President, the RSS hate-filled Hindutva ideology has unleashed a reign of fear and
01:18violence against India's 200 million strong Muslim minority, the largest minority in the world.
01:26It is ironic that Pakistan is speaking about the rights of minorities.
01:31For a country that has even stopped publishing its data to hide its same shameful record,
01:37it is amazing that they have even brought up this subject.
01:41It has a long history of having committed the gravest violations of minority rights
01:45that the world has ever seen.
01:572002, discriminatory citizenship laws to purge India of Muslims,
02:03demolishing of homes and shops of Muslim communities under state patronage,
02:08storming of mosques by charged mobs,
02:11disinformation campaigns against Islam and Muslims on social media,
02:16bans on hijab, incitement to hatred and violence against Muslims in the political discourse,
02:22and a campaign to destroy mosques across India and obliterate its Muslim heritage and history.
02:28An increasingly frequent public's calls for genocide against Muslims.
02:33We know that what Pakistan has done to its minorities, it has decimated them.
02:39Some of these minorities have become extinct within Pakistan.
02:43Even today, Pakistan continues to commit grave violations of the rights of Sikhs,
02:48Hindus, Christians, and the Ahmadiyyas.
02:51Thousands of women and children, particularly girls from minority communities,
02:57have been subjected to abductions, forced marriages and conversions within Pakistan.
03:01Not only Muslims in the Indian homeland,
03:05but the only Muslim majority area in the region under their control,
03:10Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
03:13The occupying forces pursue a policy to attempt to transform
03:19the Muslim majority into a minority in their homeland.
03:24The entire union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh
03:27were, are, and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India,
03:33irrespective of what the representative of Pakistan believes or covets.
03:38We call on Pakistan to stop cross-border terrorism
03:41so that our citizens can exercise their right to life and liberty.
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