Unable to distinguish between victim and perpetrator: India slams OIC remarks at UN
“The OIC chair would do better to focus on Pakistan’s illegal occupation, especially in Rawalakot, where wanton killings, brutal violence and the denial of…
The Hindu reports: “The OIC chair would do better to focus on Pakistan’s illegal occupation, especially in Rawalakot, where wanton killings, brutal violence and the denial of basic rights to the people living there are so visible.
Such willful blindness only speaks of bigotry and intolerance,” Lok Sabha MP Biplab Kumar Deb said.
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