Overview
- Figures emerged in a Rajya Sabha reply by Minister of State Kirti Vardhan Singh, underscoring parliamentary scrutiny of minority rights abroad.
- India has leveraged UN Human Rights Council interventions to highlight Pakistan’s alleged sectarian attacks on vulnerable communities.
- New Delhi has reported nine vandalism incidents against Hindu temples in North America since last year and pressed US and Canadian authorities for justice.
- Following a June 12 defacement of Rabindranath Tagore’s ancestral home in Bangladesh, Indian démarches helped prompt two arrests and security assurances in Dhaka.
- The minister also reiterated India’s previous rescue of 74 Afghan Sikhs in 2021 and condemnation of the 2022 terror assault on a Kabul gurudwara.