New Delhi, May 6 -- Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi of Lal Masjid, a cleric has remarked that there is 'more oppression' in Pakistan than in India, adding that Pakistan's 'fight is a fight of nationality, not of Islam'. The cleric slammed his own country as tensions surge between India and Pakistan post a terror attack in Kashmir's Phalgam that killed 26 people.

Muhammad Abdul Aziz Ghazi is a Pakistani Deobandi scholar and Islamist dissident, serving as Imam and Khatib of Lal Masjid in Islamabad.

A video of the cleric's sermon has gone viral on social media. The two minute clip shows, Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi criticising the Shehbaz Sharif government in Pakistan, calling it a "cruel, useless system". Ghazi accused the state of inflicting syste...