Pakistan has now officially allied with Modi: Congress

The party, however, said that Imran Khan and Pakistan would never succeed.

Talking to reporters here, AICC media in-charge Randeep Surjeewala said: "It seems that Pakistan has now officially allied with Modi ji. Imran Khan seems to say seems to now wish for his friend Modi ji’s success, this entire country saw Modi ji’s love for Nawaz Sharif and ISI when he went uninvited to Pakistan and then invited ISI to India. It seems that the love affair with Imran Khan now continues.

"We want to say Imran Khan and Pakistan will never succeed nor will the firecrackers, in Modiji’s language, burst in Pakistan for Modiji is going to lose the 2019 election."

Reacting to Imran’s comments, Surjewala said: "Pakistan Prime Minister and ISI wants that such Prime Minister should continue in India where the internal strife continues to blow, where the atmosphere of hatred and division gets perpetuated by the actions of the powers that are, where peace is a casualty in the country, where directly or indirectly forces inimical to India continue to get space."

"Pakistan wants that while its relationship with China should be strengthened, it wants to isolate India. Let me say from this podium, let me say it today as a citizen of India, that Pakistan Prime Minister’s diabolical design and wish will never come true. We will defeat every force that perpetuate and propagate hatred, division in this country and Imran Khan’s friend Modiji and his party will be decimated by the people of India," he said.

Apart from the Congress , other leaders such as Sitaram Yechury of the CPM also hit out at Pak PM's wish for Mr Modi to come back.

''We have serious concerns about foreign governments influencing our democratic election process. Last year, it was reported that ISI wants Modi as PM. Now Pakistani PM says it,'' Yechury said in a tweet.

''Pakistan has been the only issue of Modi's election campaign, where he has scurrilously tried to link it to the Opposition. Now we know who Pakistan actually wants as PM, the only Indian PM to have invited ISI to a military base, and the only one who went to Pakistan uninvited," Yechury added.

Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Khan has supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying both the countries will have a better chance of settling the Kashmir dispute if Modi-led BJP government returned to power.

According to the media reports here, the cricketer-turned-politician further said if the Congress comes to power at the Centre then it might not start a dialogue with Pakistan on Kashmir as it will be scared of the Opposition.