‘INDIAN MUSLIMS DESERVE CREDIT FOR RESISTING RADICALISATION’

Muslims in India should be complimented for not letting radicalisation spread in the country despite consistent efforts to brainwash them, Union home minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday while castigating Pakistan for not desisting from its “evil designs” in the context of Kashmir.

Speaking at the 16th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Singh called terrorism a “crime against humanity” and said it was not linked to any religion or caste. “Even Islamic nations have condemned terrorism. Pakistan should take efforts to stop terrorism. I must compliment Muslims in India that they have not allowed radicalisation to spread in the country,” Singh said.

The home minister said the situation in Kashmir will improve, but expressed dismay that Pakistan was still indulging in crossborder terror. “Not one, but every prime minister has tried to improve the relationship with Pakistan,” Singh said.

“But Pakistan is continuing to infiltrate terrorists into India. This is a reality.”

He said that the general situation in Kashmir is better than it was a year ago.

GUWAHATI:Minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Friday said infiltrators are “a threat to Indian Muslims” and causing the “most damage” to them.

“Indian Muslims who are committed to respecting the country, building the nation, they are respected in the same manner and will continue to be done. But infiltrators are causing most damage to nobody else but Indian Muslims,” he said in Guwahati where he came to attend a zonal coordination meeting of principal secretaries, secretaries in charge and other officials of social welfare and minority welfare departments.

“No country can accept or ignore the population explosion of illegal infiltrators. But to think every Muslim is a ghuspathiya (infiltrator) is wrong. We do not believe in it,” he said when asked about the National Register of Citizens (NRC), an exercise carried out in the state to determine “illegal immigrants”. Asked if all infiltrators were Muslims, he said, “that is not true either”.