A key panel of the Pakistan Senate has advised the country’s government to attack far-right Hindutva ideology in India in light of the dispute between the two countries centred around alleged human rights violations in Balochistan, Express Tribune reported. The "policy guidelines in view of the latest situation developing between India and Pakistan" were adopted by the country’s Upper House, the report by the Pakistani daily said.
The Committee of the Whole’s report had 22 guidelines, including suggestions to highlight “India’s own fault lines in their alienated Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and Dalits as well as the growing Maoist insurgency”. It added that “[Indian Prime Minister Narendra] Modi and his RSS ideology of Hindutva should be targeted". The panel’s chief and Leader of the House Raja Zafarul Haq presented the report before the other legislators.
The report also blamed Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for not focussing on India’s involvement in Balochistan at the United Nations General Assembly meet. It claimed that the arrest of Kulbushan Yadav, whom Pakistan claims is a spy from India’s Research and Analysis Wing, “should have been and should be raised at various important international forums along with the human rights violations in Indian held Kashmir.”
Pakistan had claimed that Yadav had confessed to helping India “foment terrorism” in the Balochistan area. However, India had dismissed this as unreliable claims by Pakistan.
The row Balochistan began after Pakistan dedicated its Independence Day in August to the “freedom of Kashmir”, following which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought up alleged human rights abuses in the disputed region during his own Independence Day remarks.
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