India slams Qureshi remarks on Pillai
India Blooms News Service
New Delhi, July 16 (IBNS): Pakistan Foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s remarks against India’s Home secretary GK Pillai, equating Pillai’s statements to hate speeches of 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed, has blown up a storm in the political circles in the country.
The Indian External Affairs minister, SM Krishna, has also come under fire of the Opposition for failing to defend Pillai as Qureshi made the comments in Krishna’s presence.
Qureshi, during a joint press meet with Krishna at Islamabad on Thursday night, had equated Pillai’s comments on ISI’s role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to the hate speeches by Saeed, the chief plotter of the Mumbai attacks.
“The Pakistani Foreign Minister was strong in articulation but deficient in content. He chose to attack the Home Secretary, we regret he was not defended by Krishna,” Ravi Shankar Prasad, general secretary of the main Opposition party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said here on Friday.
Criticizing Qureshi’s remarks, Congress spokesperson Abhishekh Singhvi said, “The Home Secretary was simply making a statement of fact about what India's stand has been. There is no basis of comparison for remarks made by the Home Secretary to those made by Hafiz Saeed... that would be ridiculous.”
Pillai, during an interaction with journalists of the Indian Express newspaper, had said, “ISI had a much more significant role to play in Mumbai attacks... ISI was literally controlling and coordinating the attacks from the beginning till the end.”
Qureshi had slammed the remarks of Pillai as ‘uncalled for’ in response to a question on Hafiz Saeed.
He had also claimed that the Indian External Affairs minister supported his view and Krishna, who was present at the press briefing, had not defended his officer.
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