India has slammed Pakistan for glorifying slain Hizbul terrorist Burhan Wani, saying Islamabad’s terror support and sponsorship need to be condemned by ‘one and all’.
In a tweet, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay said, “First @ForeignOfficePk read frm banned leT’s script. Now Pak COAS (Pakistan Army chief) glorifies Burhan Wani. Pak’s terror support and sponsorship need to be condemned by one and all.”
Baglay was obviously responding to Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s fulsome praise of Wani, who was killed in an encounter with security forces last year.
“Sacrifices of #BurhanWani & generations against Indian atrocities are a testimony of their resolve,” Pakistan Army spokesperson Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor had on Saturday quoted Gen Bajwa as saying on Twitter.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday had also paid tribute to Wani, saying his death “infused a new spirit in the struggle for freedom” in the Kashmir Valley. This came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Pakistan of using terror as a tool to achieve political objectives and called for “deterrent” action against such nations.
In his speech at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Modi drew comparison between Pakistan-based lashkar-e-Tayyeba and Jaish-e-Mohammad to Islamic State and al-Qaeda, saying their names might be different but their ideology was the same.