Shiv Sena activists ransack Pakistan-India exhibition in Dehradun

The attackers forcibly shut Pakistani stalls, according to reports

ISLAMABAD: Indian extremist party Shiv Sena on Saturday attacked an on going Pakistan-India exhibition in Dehradun city.

Shiv Sena activists stormed the exhibition, shut the doors and chanted anti-Pakistan slogans, a TV channel reported. According to reports the Shiv Sena activists also forced to shut Pakistani stalls and changed the name of exhibition to Indo-Asia from Indo-Pak.



The Pak-India exhibition started on January 7 and will continue till January 10, the TV channel reported. Later, the local administration provided security to continue the exhibition.

This is not the first time Shiv Sena workers have shown anti-Pakistan sentiments. In October last, activists of the hard-line Hindu party, angry at the launch of a former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri’s book, doused the event organiser with black ink in Mumbai.



In the same month, the activists of Shiv Sena stormed the head-quarters of the Indian cricket board in Mumbai, shortly before Indian cricket officials were scheduled to meet their Pakistani counterparts to discuss reviving cricket ties between the two nations. 

Published in The Express Tribune, January 10^th, 2016.