New Delhi: The government on Saturday hit back at Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for his remarks about minorities in India and suggested that Islamabad could do well to concentrate on its domestic challenges instead of making an attempt to divert attention.
“The Pakistan Prime Minister’s remarks are an conspicuous insult to all citizens of India. He has yet again demonstrated his lack of understanding about India’s secular polity and attribute. He overlooks the plain proven fact that adherents of all faiths like better to live beneath the democratic polity and the progressive Constitution of india,” Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said.
India’s attack came when media reports quoted Khan as saying that his government would not enable minorities to be treated like second class voters like minorities in India.
Kumar said India has eminent leaders of all faiths who occupy its highest constitutional and official positions.
“In distinction, Pakistani voters of non-Islamic religion are barred from occupying high constitutional offices. The minorities are usually turned away from government bodies just like the Economic informative Council of their Prime Minister, even in ‘naya Pakistan’,” Kumar said.
“Pakistan would act to concentrate on its domestic challenges and improve conditions of its citizens instead of try to divert attention,” he added.
The official representative said the Pakistan Prime Minister’s latest attempts to play with minority sentiment in India are going to be rejected by the people of this country.
SOURCE : IANS
