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A Pakistani cleric from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been detained after he allegedly slammed the Pakistan Army for its alleged brutality and declared that he and others would “support India” if the two countries went to war.

The cleric, identified as Maulvi Gulzar of Mardan, said, “Hindus have not treated us as cruelly as Pakistani soldiers have treated us in jail. If India attacks Pakistan, we will support India because of the cruelty of the Pakistani government.”

He went on to accuse Pakistani soldiers of “inhuman treatment” of prisoners and religious scholars, claiming that when he was jailed, “All ulema swore on the Holy Quran that if India attacks Pakistan, we will support India. The cruelty with which the Pakistan Army treats

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