{"id":322436,"date":"2020-04-20T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T03:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322436"},"modified":"2020-04-20T04:57:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T04:57:52","slug":"bizarre-comments-india-trashes-pakistan-pm-imran-khans-claim-of-discrimination-against-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bizarre-comments-india-trashes-pakistan-pm-imran-khans-claim-of-discrimination-against-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bizarre comments\u2019: India trashes Pakistan PM Imran Khan\u2019s claim of discrimination against Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-306257 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/imran-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/imran-1.jpg 512w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/imran-1-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/>India has rejected Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s allegations of discrimination against Muslims in the country in the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson\u00a0Anurag Srivastava\u00a0said the bizarre comments by the Pakistani leadership was an attempt to shift focus from the abysmal handling of that country&#8217;s internal affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a tweet, Imran Khan had accused the Indian government of deliberately targeting the Muslim community against the backdrop of the coronavirus crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cInstead of concentrating on fighting COVID19, they are making baseless allegations against their neighbours,\u201d the MEA spokesperson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOn the subject of minorities, they would be well advised to address the concerns of their own dwindling minority communities, which have been truly discriminated against,\u201d MEA spokesperson added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India\u2019s response came after Imran Khan in a tweet said, \u201cThe deliberate &amp; violent targeting of Muslims in India by Modi Govt to divert the backlash over its COVID19 policy, which has left thousands stranded &amp; hungry, is akin to what Nazis did to Jews in Gerrmany. Yet more proof of the racist Hindutva Supremacist ideology of Modi Govt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has rejected Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s allegations of discrimination against Muslims in the country in the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson\u00a0Anurag Srivastava\u00a0said the bizarre comments by the Pakistani leadership was an attempt to shift focus from the abysmal handling of that country&#8217;s internal affairs. In a tweet, Imran Khan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322438,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322436\/revisions\/322438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}