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India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been accused of further incitement of hatred against Muslims after a near-century-old masjid was bulldozed on Monday.

Last week saw a record rise in COVID-19 deaths in Pakistan. With the capacity of COVID-19 to spread exponentially, fear is spreading across Pakistan that it too will see a similar picture to India.

After nearly two decades of having their reputations irreversibly tainted by false allegations of ‘terror’ offences, 127 Indian Muslims were finally acquitted of any wrongdoing.

In a rare move, Indian police have filed charges against an army officer as well as two civilians for planting guns on the corpses of three Kashmiri labourers shot and killed in July earlier this year.

“The accused persons had been stalking and sexually harassing my sister for the last three [to] four months and pressurising her to marry Satish Rai. They killed her because she refused.”

The Indian government has updated its law to allow any Indian citizen to buy land in Jammu and Kashmir.

Demographic shift fears as India starts to issue residency certificates to thousands of non-Kashmiris, almost a year after Modi’s Hindu nationalist government decided to strip Kashmir of its special constitutional status.

Both India and China have blamed each other following a heated and deadly confrontation in the strategic Galwan Valley, located in the Indian Ladakh region, where physical fights saw the death of 20 Indian soldiers.

A prominent member of India’s governing party, the BJP, has been filmed warning Indians against buying vegetables from Muslim vendors amid the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.

The outbreak of the coronavirus has provided a fresh opportunity for a new wave of Islamophobia to grip the Indian Muslim community. False claims that Muslims are responsible for the pandemic have escalated into attacks and boycotts across the country.