The Congress on Thursday questioned Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s double standard of giving patronage to international terrorists on one side and talking about terrorism on other. Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said that Sharif’s “conspiratorial omission” of Uri attacks in his United Nations General Assembly address is an admission of public guilt of involvement in crime. The party reiterated support to the Government in taking any useful concrete steps in national interest.
“Hafiz Saeed, Masood Azhar, Dawood (Ibrahim) operate in Pakistan under your tutelage yet Mr Sharif has audacity to speak on terrorism…A guilty conscious needs no accuser, Mr. Sharif. Isn’t conspiratorial omission of Uri Attacks at UNGA an admission of public guiltIJ Pak must abandon terrorism as its state policy. Mr Sharif, isn’t that expectation reasonable for a sustainable dialogueIJ,” Surjewala said on Twitter.
“Is it not a fact that terrorism from Pakistani soil is not only emanating against India, but also against neighbours like Afghanistan and BangladeshIJ Has the world forgotten that Osama Bin laden found shelter in Abbottabad, Pakistan, next to an Army GarrisonIJ Travesty is that Pakistan still has the audacity to speak on terrorism,” Surjewala said.
He added that Sharif had once again betrayed Pakistan’s mindless obsession with Kashmir at UNGA saying Pak’s diabolical designs will never succeed. “After taking his brief from his real handlers — the Military establishment and ISI in Rawalpindi — all that the Pak PM came up with at the UNGA was a confirmation that his country is indeed a renegade state that has emerged as the Central Processing Unit (CPU) of global terror,” Surjewala said.