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2019-11-19 India-Pakistan
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Pakistan to host Istanbul Process meeting on countering religious intolerance next year
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[DAWN] Pakistain will host the 8th meeting of the Istanbul Process next year with a focus to evolve responses to growing religious intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Monday.
The announcement in this regard was made by Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood today at The Hague, Netherlands during his keynote address at the 7th Istanbul Process meeting.
The minister drew the gathering's attention to the "alarming levels of Islamophobia
 ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
" prevalent in many parts of the world, citing incidents of hate crimes, negative profiling, assaults on hijab-wearing Moslem women and denigration of venerated Moslem personalities and symbols as examples, the FO statement said.
He cautioned politicians against using "incendiary and populist rhetoric" for electoral gains, saying it can serve as a catalyst for hate speech leading to acts of violence, systematic discrimination and in some cases acts of terrorism.
Mahmood underlined the need for upholding the right to self-determination of people under foreign occupation. He called upon the flag-bearers of human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
to "eschew ambivalence and double standards" in the face of grave human rights violations including in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir . The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
He also expressed deep concerns over the growing incidents of "systematic discrimination and state-sanctioned violence against Moslems" in India, the FO statement said.
Talking about the importance of upholding fundamental freedoms, the minister stressed that freedom of expression must be exercised with responsibility and the international community should "begin to consider reasonable restrictions in this regard", both online and offline.
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