{"id":89411,"date":"2022-12-17T07:01:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T01:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=89411"},"modified":"2022-12-17T07:01:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T01:31:06","slug":"uncivilised-new-low-backlash-for-bilawal-bhuttos-comment-on-pm-modi-10-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/uncivilised-new-low-backlash-for-bilawal-bhuttos-comment-on-pm-modi-10-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncivilised, new low: Backlash for Bilawal Bhutto&#8217;s comment on PM Modi | 10 points"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The India-Pakistan war of words at the United Nations over the issue of terrorism witnessed a massive showdown on Friday with the external affairs ministry condemning Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto&#8217;s personal attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the strongest of words. The BJP will hold a nationwide protest on Saturday against Bilawal Bhutto&#8217;s comment, the party said. Read | Hit for global terror in UNSC, Pak personally targets PM Modi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Foreign minister S Jaishankar and Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto have taken potshots at each other several times in the United Nations.<\/li><li>As Bilawal raked up the issue of Kashmir at the UN, Jaishankar said those who hosted Osama bin Laden do not have the credentials to sermonise. &#8220;Nor can hosting Osama bin Laden and attacking a neighbouring Parliament serve as credentials to sermonize before this council,&#8221; he said.<\/li><li>Pakistan&#8217;s minister of state for foreign affairs Hina Rabbani Khar blamed India for terrorism and said &#8220;no country had used terrorism better than India&#8221;.<\/li><li>Calling Pakistan the epicentre of terrorism, Jaishankar said one can&#8217;t have snakes in the backyard and expect them to only bite the neighbours. \u201cI read the reports on what Hina Rabbani Khar said. I was reminded, more than a decade ago, Hillary Clinton was visiting Islamabad. Hina Rabbani Khar was the minister at that time. Standing next to her, Hillary Clinton said \u2026if you have a snake in the backyard you cannot expect it to bite only your neighbour, eventually, it will bite the people who keep them in the backyard.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5.<\/strong>&nbsp;The world is not stupid, Jaishankar said replying to a question from a Pakistani journalist and said despite the &#8216;brain-fog&#8217; induced by Covid, the world has not forgotten who has their fingerprints over a lot of activities (terror) in the region and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6.<\/strong>&nbsp;In reply to Jaishankar&#8217;s attack, Bilawal Bhutto launched a personal attack on PM Modi. He called Modi and Jaishankar the prime minister and the foreign minister of the RSS, which &#8220;drew inspiration from Hitler&#8217;s SS&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7.<\/strong>&nbsp;The external affairs ministry issued a statement calling Bilawal Bhutto&#8217;s outburst uncivilised. New Delhi said the statement marks a new low even for Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8.<\/strong>\u00a0In its statement, the ministry called out Pakistan for glorifying Osama bin laden and sheltering terrorists like Lakhvi, Hafiz Saeed, Masood Azhar etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9.<\/strong>&nbsp;The BJP issued a statement in which it said, &#8220;What more can be expected from Pakistan&#8217;s Foreign Minister which reflects his and his government&#8217;s desperation and mental bankruptcy.&#8221; &#8220;Does Bilawal Bhutto even have the stature to comment about our PM Narendra Modi who is a true statesman and a highly respected global leader? This demeaning statement of Bilawal Bhutto further lowered the image of Pakistan on the global platform,&#8221; the BJP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10.&nbsp;<\/strong>BJP&#8217;s Rajyaardhan Singh Rathore said Bilawal&#8217;s mother Benazir Bhutto was involved in promoting terrorism in Kashmir and was killed by the same terrorists. Union minister Anurag Thakur said Bilawal&#8217;s statement reflects the pain of their defeat at the hand of India in 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The India-Pakistan war of words at the United Nations over the issue of terrorism witnessed a massive showdown on Friday with the external affairs ministry condemning Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto&#8217;s personal attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the strongest of words. The BJP will hold a nationwide protest on Saturday against Bilawal Bhutto&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89413,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89411\/revisions\/89413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}