LAHORE, March 8: The Kashmir Action Committee, Pakistan (KACP) has condemned anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat province of India where, it said, about 1,000 innocent Muslims have been killed and most of them burnt alive.

The working committee of the KACP which met here on Friday with its president Dr Muzaffar Shah adopted a resolution which said that the Gujarat riots had exposed the anti-Muslim designs of the extremist Hindus who in connivance of the state authorities were killing the Muslims. The same genocide of the Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir had been carried out by the Hindu terrorists under the umbrella of Indian security forces for the past 12 years killing about 80,000 Muslim men, women and children.

The resolution expressed the KACP’s alarm over the recent wave of oppression and atrocities by the Indian army in Kashmir under the cover of the newly promulgated ordinance which had given the army a free hand to kill the Muslims branding them as terrorists. In this tenuous crime the Indian army had been given the full support of the Israeli commandos.

The resolution further said that state terrorism had been instrumental in the Indian government policy in the country where religious minorities, specially the Muslims had been made its prime target. While vehemently condemning the genocide of the Muslims in Kashmir, Gujarat and other parts of India and state sponsored terrorism, the KACP felt that Indian acts of violence were mostly condoned by the world community which was under the influence of Indian propaganda blitz, thus encouraging India to continue and build upon these acts of bullying its neighbours on the one hand and suppressing its minorities on the other.