Islamabad: Pakistan has summoned the Indian Embassy in-charge (Charge d’Affairs) in the Ministry of External Affairs here and conveyed the government’s serious concern over the ban on Muslim girl students from wearing hijab in Karnataka. Is. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement late Wednesday that the Indian diplomat was apprised of Pakistan’s deep concern over alleged religious intolerance, negative stereotypes, stigma and discrimination against Muslims in India. It was given that the Government of India should hold the perpetrators of atrocities against women in Karnataka accountable and take adequate measures to ensure the safety of Muslim women.
The statement was issued by the Ministry of External Affairs after several ministers of Pakistan expressed concern over the ongoing hijab controversy in Karnataka. Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had said that depriving Muslim girls of education is a gross violation of fundamental human rights. Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Hussain said that what is going on in India is appalling. He tweeted, “Indian society is deteriorating at a rapid rate under unstable leadership. Wearing hijab is a personal choice like any other garment, citizens should be given freedom to do so.”
Depriving Muslim girls of an education is a grave violation of fundamental human rights. To deny anyone this fundamental right & terrorize them for wearing a hijab is absolutely oppressive. World must realise this is part of Indian state plan of ghettoisation of Muslims.
— Shah Mahmood Qureshi (@SMQureshiPTI) February 9, 2022
Reacting to the statement of Pakistani ministers, India’s Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that any institution’s “Dress Code (Apparel Manual), Discipline (Discipline), Decorum Decision (Decision to Maintain Dignity)” should be treated as communal. Coloring is a conspiracy against the inclusive culture of India. Naqvi also said, “Pakistan, which has become a forest of crime and atrocities on minorities in its country, is giving us knowledge on tolerance and secularism. Socio-educational-religious rights of minorities are being trampled on in Pakistan brazenly and brazenly.”
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It is worth mentioning that in January, six girl students of a government ‘pre-university college’ in Udupi were asked to leave the campus after wearing hijab in violation of the prescribed ‘dress code’ to come to classes, leading to a major controversy. There were demonstrations in Gaya and across the state. In response, Hindu students also started protesting by wearing saffron shawls. (agency)