Pakistan, Nov. 14 -- India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has found itself at the centre of another controversy over democratic freedoms after more than 100 international speakers were reportedly prevented from attending an opposition-backed democracy summit in Hyderabad. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor took to social media to allege that 115 of the 315 speakers initially cleared by the Ministry of External Affairs were subsequently denied entry or had their visas cancelled, apparently on instructions from the Home Ministry. New Delhi has yet to explain why so many speakers cleared by one arm of its government were subsequently barred from entering the country. The irony is particularly rich in a country whose leadership seldom misses an oppo...