Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s remarks on PM Modi reflects his deep frustration with the way India has exposed Islamabad on 26/11 attacks, top government sources said on Friday blaming the country for global terrorism.
The government sources also said that failed Pakistani politicians have surrendered their political powers to Army Generals in Islamabad, who are giving them diplomatic statements to deliver in forums like the UN. They said Bhutto’s statement was below-the-belt attack on Prime Minister Modi.
The government’s response came after the Pakistani foreign minister on Thursday had made a highly objectionable comment against PM Narendra Modi in response to India’s earlier comment on Pakistan.
The government sources also said that Pakistan has not done anything on the 2008 Mumbai attacks case and terrorists like Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Hafiz Sayeed are roaming free.
“His (Bhutto’s) remarks reflect their deep frustration on the way India has exposed them on 26/11 at the UN. Yesterday, the nurse (Anjali Kulte) who had saved about 20 people (during Mumbai attacks) had also joined on line and narrated on the 26/11 and moreover the way External Affairs Minister exposed Bilawal at the UNSC Meet also has left them disturbed,” government sources told CNN-News18.
“Lakhvi and Hafiz Sayeed are also free and Pakistan has done nothing in the Mumbai Attack case which has left them frustrated, which is why Bilawal has made such a remark,” they added.
Bhutto Zardari criticising PM Modi said, “(I want to tell India) that Osama bin Laden is dead, but the butcher of Gujarat lives and he is the Prime Minister of India.”
He was in New York to participate in the UN meetings, where he added, “He (PM Modi) was banned from entering this country until he became the Prime Minister. This is the Prime Minister of the RSS and the Foreign Minister of the RSS. What is the RSS? The RSS takes inspiration from Hitler’s ‘SS’.”
Calling out the Bhutto’s personal attacks, the government said that Pakistan is a failed state that had created millions of non-actors which are out of their control.
“We remind Bilawal Bhutto that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was famous for being a tyrant, intimidating opponents and for human rights violations,” the government sources said adding that the former Pakistan PM and Bilawal’s grandfather had ordered military operations against Baloch and is accused of genocide, causing thousands of civilian casualties in 1973.
The government also said that Pakistan’s frustration is to the extent that it had brought Taliban in Afghanistan, but the militant group went against them.
The government said that Bhutto’s statement appeared to be in the heat-of-the moment’ to assuage a bruised ego. It also appeared to be a calculated escalation to appease internal stakeholders, it added.
Bhutto’s comment came in response to Jaishankar’s statement in the UN Security Council on Wednesday where he slammed Pakistan for raising the Kashmir issue in the council and said that a country that hosted slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and attacked a neighbouring Parliament does not have the credentials to “sermonise” in the power UN organ.
Jaishankar said the UN’s credibility depends on its effective response to the key challenges of our times, be it pandemics, climate change, conflicts or terrorism, and that “the normalisation of such threats” should never be accepted.
Kashmir has Given Clear Signals
The government also said that Kashmiris has given Pakistan clear signal that they want to go with India.
Pakistan is also frustrated because of the successful removal of article 370 in Pakistan, the government sources said.
They added that Islamabad is affected by terrorism, but it has created terrorism in their own country, using their own army and for their own purposes.
Earlier, Bilawal Bhutto had raised the Kashmir issue while speaking in the UN Security Council debate on reformed multilateralism.
The government said that Bilawal’s aggressive stand against India and Kashmir is only a strategy to appease the military establishment in Pakistan.
“Bilawal Bhutto raised the slogan ‘Modi Ka Jo Yaar Hai Wo Gaddar’ in 2016, it was only a stunt to make better relations with the Pakistan Army Generals and military establishment; which is now proved and he has been made Pakistan’s Foreign Minister,” they added.
(With inputs from Shailendra Wangu)
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