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UN, HR bodies biased towards Muslims LAHORE, Oct. 28: The Jamaat e Islami chief, Syed Munawar Hasan, has said that the United Nations and the Human Rights bodies all over the world were biased towards the Muslims and had always supported the powers perpetrating atrocities on the Muslims. Addressing the Friday congregation at Mansoora mosque, he said that had the UN supported the Muslims in Palestine and Kashmir, they would have been liberated by now. The world body had demonstrated shameful partiality in the liberation of the Christians of South Sudan and East Taimur, he added. He said the Kashmiris had observed Black Day on October 26, the day on which the Indian troops had entered the valley. The Kashmiris were all protest against India‘ brutalities but there was none to listen to them, he lamented. Syed Munawar Hasan condemned the state torture on the Muslims in Syria and Yemen and called for emergent meetings of the Arab League and the OIC to end the mutual differences of the...

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