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Watch: Pakistan Quotes Arundhati Roy To Lash Out At India, Invokes Writer To Speak Against Sushma Swaraj's UN Speech

Pakistan라이브 바카라 Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi on Saturday quoted Roy's statement that the "whole population of Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims, and Christians are being forced to live in terror"

Watch: Pakistan Quotes Arundhati Roy To Lash Out At India, Invokes Writer To Speak Against Sushma Swaraj's UN Speech
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In response to India바카라 웹사이트foreign minister Sushma Swaraj라이브 바카라바카라 웹사이트hard-hitting speech against Pakistan in the United Nations General Assembly, the latter has 바카라 웹사이트invoked novelist Arundhati Roy to attack Swaraj for calling Islamabad, "world라이브 바카라 greatest exporter of havoc, death and inhumanity.”

Pakistan라이브 바카라 Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi바카라 웹사이트on Saturday바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트quoted Roy's statement that the "whole population of Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims, and Christians are being forced to live in terror" and slammed the Modi government, quoting a section of Indian secularists who called바카라 웹사이트his government as “fascist” and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as a “fanatic”.바카라 웹사이트

Arundhati Roy who had in 2015, returned her National Award as part of what she called an 바카라 웹사이트"unparalleled political movement against ideological viciousness" found mention in Lodhi's speech who invoked the writer's quotes to slam the Indian government.바카라 웹사이트

Arundhati Roy, when contacted, was even-handed in her response -- neither keen to be used in this manner for strategic ends, nor willing to step back from her considered stance. "All governments and their spokespersons are opportunistic. That cannot become a reason for writers and journalists not to write what they have to write," she told 바카라.

“Much of what is in the air in India now is pure terror, in Kashmir, in other places,” 바카라 웹사이트Lodhi quoted Roy's statement from an article she had written for the Indian Express during the 'Award Vapsi' campaign in 2015.바카라 웹사이트

Speaking on Indian politics, Lodhi said바카라 웹사이트“a racist and fascist ideology is firmly embedded in Modi라이브 바카라 government and that its leadership is drawn from the RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh] which is accused of assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.”

"Kashmir is not part of India," Lodhi stressed, adding that the global community needs to collectively make India stop violating the ceasefire arrangement between the two countries.
She said India라이브 바카라 refusal to implement the UN resolutions on Kashmir dispute is a deception and aggression, accusing India of leveling accusations against Pakistan to divert world attention from the brutalities in occupied Kashmir.
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She also said India is using terrorism as a state policy and that Indian spy Kulbhushan Yadav has confessed of committing terrorism in Pakistan.
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Lodhi slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of killing of Muslims in Gujarat, and hands of several leaders of the ruling party in India are stained with blood of innocent people. No minority in India is safe, she added.바카라 웹사이트

She also returned India's claims of Pakistan 바카라 웹사이트harbouring terrorism, calling India the 'mother of terrorism', adding that the country is not just the world's largest democracy but the 'world's largest hypocrisy'.

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