Pakistan's Foreign Office has condemned the demolition of a historic mosque in Saharanpur, a city in India's Uttar Pradesh state, calling it part of an "Islamophobic and Hindutva-driven campaign to erase Islamic heritage" in the country. The mosque, located inside a district government complex known as a Collectorate, was torn down days after a court dismissed an appeal against a ruling that the structure stood on government land without authorisation — though a mosque staff member disputed this, saying the land was registered in their name and that the order was for eviction, not demolition. Pakistan's Foreign Office called on the international community to take note of what it described as the systematic persecution of Muslims in India, invoking the 1992 destruction of the Babri Mosque — which sparked riots that killed around 2,000 people — as a precedent for religiously motivated destruction of Islamic sites.