THE Pakistani the foreign minister called him Indian prime minister “Gujarat Butcher”reacting to accusations leveled against him earlier by saying his country is a “hotbed of terrorism” at the United Nations on Thursday.
After their separation, after ceasing to be part of the British Empire in 1947, the two nuclear-armed countries are in conflict over the Himalayan region of Kashmir. They have been involved in three wars, with two of the three having control of Kashmir at stake.
As APE-MPE notes, enmity and disputes between the two countries have never stopped: over the years, the skirmishes between them are innumerable. The most recent serious incidents between the two countries date back to 2019, when they had reached the brink of war.
New Delhi accuses Islamabad of providing sanctuary to ethical perpetrators of terrorist acts on Indian soilespecially the Mumbai attacks in 2008 (over 160 dead).
India’s foreign minister S. Jaishankar earlier accused Pakistan of being a “hotbed of terrorism”.
“I would advise you to change your behavior, try to be a good neighborhe said in front of the press. He recalled the statements “of Hillary Clinton during her visit to Pakistan, when she said ‘if you see snakes in your garden, you can’t let them attack and bite your neighbors, because they will end up biting those who keep them. in the garden'”.
Pakistan’s foreign minister, Bilawal Bhutto, countered that India is trying to equate Muslims with terrorists – both on its own soil, and on Pakistani soil.
He reminded Mr Jaishankar that “Osama bin Laden is dead, (but) the butcher of Gujarat is alive – he is the Prime Minister of India himself”.
India’s prime minister, Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, was state chief minister in Gujarat when interfaith riots broke out in 2002, killing more than 1,100 people, mostly Muslims.
Mr Modi, who has been accused of turning a blind eye to the violence at best, was banned from entering the US until he was elected federal prime minister in 2014.
Mr. Bhutto added that his country has also been bled by terrorism and reminded that he is also a victim of it: his mother, Benazir Bhutto, was the victim of a suicide bomber in 2007. “Why should we want our people to suffer? ; We don’t want that, under any circumstances.”
Source: News Beast
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