Pakistan, Sept. 28 -- Understanding the challenges in the regional and global context in the

backdrop of India's provocative policy is itself a challenge, given the inhumane treatment of all non-Hindus and low-caste Hindus at the hands of RSS-inspired Hindu supremacists. It is a challenge because these supremacist tendencies don't correspond with the tall claim of Indians to be the biggest democracy of the world. The tall claim of

being the biggest democracy apart, India has always taken pride in its secularism or equal treatment of all the classes and categories of people adhering to different religions and ideologies.

On ground, the things have neither been secular nor democratic, at least in the treatment of minorities across India,...