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Indian BJP MLA Raja Singh. PHOTO: FACEBOOK/@RajaSinghOfficial FO berates India for its silence on such incidents and protecting blasphemers. Demands India take immediate action against  BJP members habitually involved in attacking Islam. Calls on int'l community to take cognisance of increasing Islamophobia in India. Pakistan has strongly condemned the blasphemous remarks against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by another official of India's ruling BJP.  This is the second time in the last three months that a BJP leader has made derogatory remarks against the holy prophet (PBUH) as the first time was when Nupur Sharma committed blasphemy in June. "Pakistan condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the highly provocative and sacrilegious remarks made against the Holy Prophet [Muhammad] (PBUH), by Raja Singh, a BJP official and a member of the state legislative assembly of the Indian state of Telangana," a statement issued by the Foreign Office read. It stated that

State lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party, T Raja Singh. — Courtesy The Quint ISLAMABAD: Pakistan strongly condemned on Wednesday the highly provocative and sacrilegious remarks made against the Holy Prophet (PBUH) by another leader of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In a statement, Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmad condemned, in the strongest possible terms, the blasphemous remarks made by Raja Singh, a BJP official and a member of the state legislative assembly of the Indian state of Telangana. This is the second time in the last three months that a senior BJP leader has made disrespectful comments against the Holy Prophet (PBUH), he added. The spokesperson said that these highly derogatory remarks have gravely hurt the feelings of the people of Pakistan and billions of Muslims around the world. The token and perfunctory disciplinary action taken by the BJP against the said official cannot assuage the pain and anguish ca

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addresses a press conference in Pakistan in this undated photo. — AFP/File  Israeli military's new airstrikes end more than a year of calm. 10 Palestinians killed as Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza. PM says if barbarism had a face, it would be that of Israel. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday condemned Israel's killing of Palestinians in Gaza as fresh violence continued a second day, ending more than a year of relative calm along the border. Israel on Friday said it had launched a special operation against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, killing one of its senior commanders in a surprise daytime air strike on a high-rise building in Gaza City. Health authorities in the enclave controlled by Hamas said 10 people had been killed by Israel's bombardment, including a five-year-old girl, with 79 others injured. Israel's army estimated that its operation had killed 15. In a tweet, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the martyrdom of 10 P

arrest of the senior anchorperson Imran Riaz ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan took to Twitter and condemned the arbitrary arrest of the senior anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan on Wednesday, BOL News reports.  In a tweet Imran Khan wrote while condemning the arrest of the senior journalist, he said, “ I strongly condemn the arbitrary arrest of @ImranRiazKhan by Punjab police tonight. The country is descending into fascism just to make our nation accept an Imported Govt comprising of mega crooks