Pakistan rejects India’s criticism of Bilawal statement

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Pakistan on Saturday rejected the statement issued by India’s External Affairs Ministry (MEA) on Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s ‘butcher of Gujarat’ remark on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, calling it a ‘reflection of India’s growing frustration”.

Bilawal called Modi the “Butcher of Gujarat”, a nickname he earned for overseeing a pogrom of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 when he was the state’s chief minister. Bilawal’s denunciation of Modi outraged India and sparked a call for a nationwide protest by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

“I would like to remind the Minister of External Affairs of India that Osama Bin Laden is dead but the Butcher of Gujarat lives and he is the Prime Minister of India. He has been banned from entering this country until he becomes prime minister,” Bilawal said on Friday after Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar accused Pakistan of being “the epicenter of terrorism” to “harbour Osama bin Laden.”

“He’s the RSS prime minister and the RSS foreign minister. What is RSS? The RSS is modeled after Hitler’s SS,” he added during the verbal scuffle.

Responding to media questions regarding the Indian MEA’s statement, Foreign Ministry (FO) spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said the statement was also “a reflection of India’s growing frustration with its failure to slander and isolate Pakistan”.

She said that after being unable to prevent Pakistan’s exit from the FATF gray list in October and international recognition of Pakistan’s counter-terrorism efforts, India is desperately using international platforms to push forward its anti-terrorism agenda. defamation and targeting of Pakistan.

The spokeswoman said that with her statement, the Indian government is trying to “hide behind subterfuge and canard to cover up the realities of the 2002 Gujarat massacre”, which she called a shameful history of massacres, lynchings, rapes and looting.

Furthermore, Baloch said that the “masterminds” of the Gujarat massacre have escaped justice and now hold key government positions in India.

She said no “verbosity can hide the crimes of the ‘Safran terrorists’ in India”. Hindutva, the political ideology of the ruling party, has created a climate of hatred, division and impunity.

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The spokesperson further said that the culture of impunity is now deeply entrenched in India’s Hindutva-led politics. The acquittal of the perpetrators of the heinous attack on the Delhi-Lahore Samjhota Express, which killed 40 Pakistani nationals on Indian soil, demonstrates the massacre of justice under the RSS-BJP dispensation.

“The intimidation and demonization of religious minorities receives official patronage in the states of India.”

She added that Hindutva supremacists have been on a rampage to exercise vigilance over cows, ransack places of worship and attack religious congregations.

Baloch also said that while India peddles a fictional narrative of victimization, it is itself a perpetrator of the crackdown in the illegally occupied Indian Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and a sponsor and financier of terrorist groups in South Asia.

She noted that just this week a dossier has been released containing compelling evidence that supports India’s involvement in the 2021 terrorist attack in a peaceful area of ​​Lahore. Evidence collected with international support confirms that the Lahore attack was instigated, planned and financed by the Indian state.

The spokesperson said that for a “country with a grand vision of itself and its place in the world, India pursues a policy of pettiness towards its neighbours”.

The spokesperson concluded that Pakistan is convinced that the international community would look through this facade and that the dream of the RSS-BJP to transform South Asia in its image will remain unrealized.

India’s statement follows Bilawal’s blistering response to India’s renewed terror mantra against Pakistan on the sidelines of an urgent UN Security Council meeting in New York.

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Bilawal also shed light on the “saffron terror” of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu supremacist paramilitary volunteer group that inspired Prime Minister Narendra Modi and shaped his political ideology.

Stung by Bilawal’s criticisms, India’s foreign ministry spokesman said it was “a new low even for Pakistan”, while joking that “the Made-in-Pakistan terrorism had to stop”. The BJP said it would hold a nationwide protest on Saturday against the Pakistani foreign minister’s “shameful and insulting” statement.

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