ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday regretted an “extremist ideology RSS has taken over a nuclear-armed country of over a billion people.”
Sharing a news story about protests against India’s controversial citizenship laws on his Twitter handle, the prime minister wrote: “It is an ideology based on racial superiority & hatred of Muslims & all minorities.”
“Whenever this genie has come out of the bottle, it has always led to bloodshed.”
An extremist ideology RSS has taken over a nuclear-armed country of over a billion people. It is an ideology based on racial superiority & hatred of Muslims & all minorities. Whenever this genie has come out of the bottle, it has always led to bloodshed. https://t.co/GKrGZSabiE
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) January 11, 2020
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In a statement on the microblogging site on Dec 21, the premier had said: “I have been warning the int[ernational] community of this for some time & am reiterating again: if India does such an operation to divert attention from its domestic chaos plus whip up war hysteria to mobilise Hindu nationalism, Pak will have no option but to give a befitting response.”
He said over the last five years of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, India has been moving towards “Hindu Rashtra with its Hindutva Supremacist fascist ideology.”
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