India and Pakistan are quarrelling over reports of an alleged kidnapping and rel...
Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj speaks during a meeting with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia September 13, 2018. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
The spat began on Sunday when India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that she had asked the country’s high commissioner in Islamabad to send a report on a news article on the allegations, a rare public intervention by a top Indian official in the neighbor’s domestic affairs. Pakistan’s Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Chaudhry said the country was “totally behind the girls”, but asked Hindu-majority India to look after its own minority Muslims.
“I sincerely hope that your conscience will allow you to stand up for minorities at home as well. Gujarat and Jammu must weigh heavily on your soul.”
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