Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday drew attention to the increasingly apparent divisions within India after an 11-member contingent of its opposition parties was prevented from visiting Srinagar in occupied Kashmir, as a security clampdown there entered its 20th day.

"This is the true face of the Indian government which the world is witnessing today," said the foreign minister as he addressed a press conference in Islamabad.

"Today the fascist attitude of the Modi administration was demonstrated at the Srinagar airport today," he said, referring to the arrest of former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders shortly after they landed.

"I call upon democratic nations of the world to view that footage. When they treat their own this way, what expectation can be had when we [Pakistan] are told to hold a dialogue with them?" said Qureshi.


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