Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday thanked Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for raising voice against massacre of Muslims in India and Kashmiris in Indian occupied Kashmir (IOK) by Hindu supremacist Modi regime.

In a tweet, he said: "Sadly, few voices from the Muslim world are speaking out and condemning this. More voices are being raised in the West, condemning the Hindu supremacist Modi regime's massacre of Muslims in India & Kashmiris in IOK." On Thursday, Khamenei urged India to "confront extremist Hindus" and "stop the massacre of Muslims", adding to the international fallout over deadly Hindu-Muslim violence in New Delhi.

At least 44 people were killed and hundreds injured in the worst communal riots in the Indian capital in decades, triggered by clashes between supporters of a new citizenship law and those against it. "The hearts of Muslims all over the world are grieving over the massacre of Muslims in India," Khamenei said in a tweet in English, just days after New Delhi rebuked Iran's foreign minister for commenting on the same issue.