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Hindu right-wing MNS workers protest at Zara clothing store for selling Pakistani goods
Political workers from India's right-wing Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) party barged into an outlet of Zara, a popular Spanish clothing brand, in a Mumbai mall and demanded the showroom be shut down as it sold clothes made in Pakistan, the Hindustan Times reported.
The workers were led by MNS Vice President Rita Gupta, said they wanted the store selling Pakistani products to be shut as a protest against Pakistan for sentencing the Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav to death for involvement in espionage and sabotage activities in Karachi and Balochistan.
Read more: India will go out of its way to save Jadhav from death row: Swaraj
Expressing displeasure, Gupta claimed Jadhav had been "unjustly prosecuted... and here we have shops dedicating sections to selling Pakistani clothes. This is simply not acceptable."
The article further reported Gupta as saying that her party will resort to "its style if the clothes were not discarded".
Explore: Who is Kulbhushan Jadhav?
Jadhav, who hails from Mumbai, was arrested on March 3, 2016, in a counter-intelligence operation in Balochistan's Mashkel area for his involvement in espionage and sabotage activities against Pakistan.
The charges he faced included spying for India, working against Pakistan’s integrity, sponsoring terrorism in the country and attempting to destabilise the state.
The Hindustan Times further reported that the MNS has been "aggressive" in the last few days, "putting up hoardings across the city, pleading for action against Pakistan on the Jadhav issue".
The management of the showroom had not commented on the incident at the time the report was filed, the paper further said.
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bright shining tolerant INDIA!!!
Immature 5 years old......
How small minded and stupid can u get in your hatred? Cant believe the Indians are stooping so low as to raid clothing shops.
I hope Pakistani 'traders' are taking note who sell Indian imported goods including Bollywood films!!!!!
Jadhavs death sentence has made relations real low but so selling made in Pakistan clothes is not going well with public. We buy made in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh...clothes. No spy has been awarded death sentance in history...even between USA and Russia during cold war days.
Bunch of Retards embarrassing the whole India
I would too, no pakistani goods in India until pakistan opens its markets and provides MFN
Here we are watching Indian movies, selling and using indian products and nobody in Pakistan protests. You decide who is hard line
Yes! go ahead.
very good MNS.... I support your nationalist approach.
Hindu Taliban are ruling once secular India.RIP moderate voices.
What else can they do?
jaddav is killer of innocents, childrens mothers so don't sell your humanity by protecting jaddav .... he must punish bitter death
The true face of India exposed.
Many more to come wait and watch.
Low cost made in Pakistan hand made leather goods including shoes and jackets are readily available in india. Royal Enfield, Zara etc have started to stop ordering goods for now from Pakistan till Jadhav case is solved
Go Pakistan. In Europe and US, it doesn't matter where I go, the clothing and textile stuff all says Made in Pakistan ;)
Very legitimate... When they are not providing us trade routes why should there product be here.
We must not export to India and not import any Indian item. When relation is extremely bitter why export and import cause further tension?
A very childish step in this age. Does not prove anything.
Indians act hilariously at times.
Indians like Pakistani cloths more than the cloths of their own country.
But other things traded between Pakistan and India are fine. - as long as it doesn't say made in Pakistan?. Maybe if all foreign countries did this and banned Indian products what will happen?
Salty because all they can afford are those rags they're wearing!
Should Pakistan ban Bollywood movies to because India sent a spy that cause murder of Pakistanis citizens. How about meddling in East Pakistan. Pakistani politicians no longer talk about India. Indian media and politicians on the other hand have this never ending obsession with Pakistan.
RSS, VHP, Shiv Sena, Bajrandal, VHH and BJP running the show.
Zara should close its store instead of listening to extremists in India.
India knows that Pakistani fashion is modern! Pakistani fashion permeates Indian wardrobes. As soon as some new Pakistani designer collection arrives, the Indian women get crazy to grab it. Fact!
Thats another form of extremism
Local manufacturing and local jobs should have first priority, not just in India but in all countries.
How do they differentiate between clothes made in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam. Lots of countries supply clothes to these brand names. Infact latest statistics tell that India is the 2nd largest textiles exporter after China. So its totally possible that most of those clothes were made by Indians themselves.
This is the mindset which became the basis of 2 nation theory, thank you for proving it right.
This is not the first time mns does it. Raj Thackeray want to politicize everything belongs to Pakistan for vote bank.
This was a fair and peaceful protest.
Good, i think both nations cut the complete ties. no movement at all.
I feel sorry for the politicians in India and Pakistan. They can't solve anything but knows how to create problems.
Not sure they need to do this. It will be a rare Indian who will buy anything made in Pakistan.
@SHIRAZ Ignorance is bliss .
Read this article on dawn : " Textile exporters fail to rise to the challenge despite incentives"
Without producing even a single cotton flower, Bangladesh has left Pakistan far behind on the list of textile-exporting countries. In July-December of the current fiscal year, Pakistan exported textile products worth $1.365 billion while Bangladesh fetched $8.041bn during the same period. Pakistan’s exports were just 17 per cent of the exports by Bangladesh.
India is second textile exporter after China. We have absolute authority to promote local clothes in our market. As long as Pakistan is considered, they tried banning our movies, but they soon realised that they can't afford it. As a matter of fact to my Pakistani brothers, Indian city of Pune has more cinema halls than Pakistan. So it is insignificant for us whether u watch or not our movies. Talking about trade relationship, Pakistan is yet to give MFN to India. It blocks Indian trade to Afghanistan. So overall you doing what you can do..
@Aijaz Ali Junejo - 100% correct done by MNS.....We support this...
Good job by MNS!!! At least they will make Indians realize which stores to boycott.
@Yasir No this is not done by any of mentioned by u, it is MNS(Maharashtra Nirvan Sena) they are desperately trying to gain attention.
@Aijaz Ali Junejo ANY EVIDENCE?
@Shahryar Shirazi : That is how it should be. You shouldn't bother about that.
@ga Read the news Pakistan did try banning Indian Movies Plans including possibly watching Iranian or even Chinese movies Problem is Pakistani theatres started to close! so the ban was lifted Go ahead and ban Indian Movies