New Delhi, May 10 -- AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said on Saturday, "The deep state of Pakistan...only uses Islam as a facade to cover up all illegal activities and their promotion of terrorism." His statement came amid ongoing tension between India and Pakistan in border areas.

Owaisi also said, "Pakistan wants to divide India on the lines of religion" and that "it wants to create more friction between Indian Muslims, Hindus and other communities over here [in India]."

He told news agency ANI, "Pakistan conveniently forgets that there are more than 230 million Muslims living in India and our forefathers rejected the two-country theory. We despise, we rejected the two-nation theory proposed by Jinnah, and we accepted India as our countr...