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Pakistan Foreign Ministry Calls Modi a ‘Terrorist’, BJP Hits Back

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said that the Indian government was being run by “a terrorist party”.

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In a breach of diplomatic propriety, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "terrorist", and said the Indian government was being run by "a terrorist party".

Asif made the remarks in an appearance on Geo TV's “Capital Talk” show, in response to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's UN General Assembly (UNGA) speech in September, in which she had accused Pakistan of "producing and exporting terrorism".

BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao told PTI:

Pakistan foreign minister is a political pygmy in a powerless government kowtowing to the terror organisations.
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These pusillanimous comments reflect Pakistan’s frustration with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s successful diplomacy in exposing the terror face of Pakistan to the world. That Pakistan is getting desperate is evident from these patently foolish and irresponsible comments.
GVL Narasimha Rao, BJP Spokesperson to PTI

Asif made the remarks while talking about Kashmiris who have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir and civilian casualties in cross-border firing along the Line of Control and the Working Boundary, the Dawn reported. The report quoted him as saying:

A terrorist is their (India’s) prime minister at this time. One whose hands are stained with the blood of the Muslims of Gujarat. A terrorist party is ruling them (India) – the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) is ruling them. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is like its subsidiary organisation.

Hamid Mir, the show's host, reminded Asif, "But Narendra Modi is an elected 'terrorist'." To this the minister retorted, "The nation that elects a terrorist... what kind of nation is that?"

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Explaining his stance, Asif said, "Look at the language the Indian prime minister is using, the way Muslims are being killed over cow-related issues. And just recently, on Dussehra, they burnt the effigies of Rohingya Muslims four times," he claimed.

"In Dussehra, they burn the effigies of villains... They declared Rohingya Muslims terrorists," he stressed, adding that although India was quick to call others terrorists, "the biggest terrorist (is Modi). Muslims were raped and murdered under his supervision when he was chief minister (of Gujarat)... The US had banned him," he said.

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