Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday urged the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to declare an 'International Day to combat Islamophobia' and to build a resilient coalition to end the scourge.

Addressing the meeting of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations via videolink, the foreign minister called for declaring willful provocations and incitement to hate and violence as universally outlawed.

The minister cited growing populism and mainstreaming contempt through unregulated social media platforms as two major reasons for the rise in Islamophobia.

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