NEW YORK, April 21: An organization of Indian Muslims in the United States on Thursday expressed their indignation over reports that a delegation of Pakistani doctors recently honoured BJP leader L. K. Advani with a plaque during a recent trip to India.

“Advani led the movement that demolished the famous Babri Mosque and was instrumental in creating conditions that caused massacres of Muslims all over India in 1992,” the Indian Muslim Council-USA said in a press release.

“Under Mr Advani’s tenure as home minister, over 2,000 Muslims were massacred, hundreds of women were raped and more than 150,000 were ethnically cleansed in the Gujarat pogroms of 2002,” the statement said.

The plaque was presented to Mr Advani by the president of the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America (APPNA), Hussain Malik, who led a group of 250 Pakistani doctors on a visit to India recently.