By India Today World Desk: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan slammed Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for visiting India to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) this week. At a rally in Lahore on Sunday, Imran Khan requested what revenue was gained from Bhutto’s journey to India.
“Pakistan was humiliated,” the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief said.
The remarks come after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar mounted an offensive in the direction of Bhutto Zardari in his take care of on the SCO meeting, contending Pakistan abroad minister’s assertion that terrorism shouldn’t be “weaponised for diplomatic point-scoring”, in remarks seen as directed at India.
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Hours later at a press conference, Jaishankar accused him of being a “promoter, justifier and a spokesperson of a terror industry”.
“As a foreign minister of an SCO member state, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was treated accordingly. As a promoter, justifier and a spokesperson of a terrorism industry, which is the mainstay of Pakistan, his positions were called out and they were countered including at the SCO meeting itself,” Jaishankar said.
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On this, Imran Khan said,”Pakistan’s foreign minister should have calculated the cost-benefit ratio before embarking on this diplomatically risky journey.”
However, Bilawal Bhutto in an distinctive interview with India Today termed his go to profitable.
(With PTI inputs)
