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| Doubling down on new foreign policy direction, Asif terms Narendra Modi a 'terrorist' |
| 2017-10-04 |
| [DAWN] Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif, in an interview on Monday, termed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "terrorist" and said the Indian government was being run by a "a terrorist party". Asif made the remarks in an appearance on Geo TV's Capital Talk show in response to Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj's United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... General Assembly (UNGA) speech, in which she had accused Pakistain of "producing and exporting terrorism". "Why is it today India is a recognised IT superpower in the world, and Pakistain is recognised only as the pre-eminent export factory for terror?" she had said at the assembly. "We produce scholars, doctors, engineers. What have you produced? You have produced terrorists," she had accused. Asif, while talking about the many Kashmiris who have been killed in India-held Kashmire and touching upon civilian casualties in cross-border firing along the Line of Control and the Working Boundary, recalled those allegations on Monday. "A terrorist is their [India's] prime minister at this time: one whose hands are stained with the blood of the Moslems of Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... ," he countered. "A terrorist party is ruling them [India] ─ the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) is ruling them. The Bharatiya Jannata Party (BJP) is like its subsidiary organization," he said. "But Narendra Modi," Hamid Mir, the show's host, reminded Asif, "is an elected 'terrorist'." |
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