Govt criticises Pakistan for ‘glorifying’ militant Burhan
MEA spokesperson slams Sharif for paying tributes to Hizb commander killed in 2016
NEW DELHI: India on Sunday said Pakistan’s support for terrorism should be condemned by all as it criticised the neighbouring country’s army chief for glorifying Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani on his first death anniversary. Burhan was killed in a gunfight with security forces in south Kashmir on July 8 last year. His death triggered months of violent street protests in Kashmir that left 100 people, most of them civilians, dead.
Ministry of external affairs spokesperson Gopal Baglay tweeted on Sunday: First @ForeignOfficePk read frm banned LeT’s script.
Now Pak COAS glorfs Burhan Wani. Pak’s terror suprt&spnsr’p need 2b condmnd by 1 & all. He was referring to Pakistan army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa’s remarks that Wani’s sacrifice was a “testimony” of his and his generation’s “resolve” against “Indian atrocities”.
Not just Bajwa, even Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif paid tributes to Wani, saying his death “infused a new spirit in the struggle for freedom” in Kashmir Valley.
Sharif’s eulogy came a day after PM Narendra Modi accused Pakistan of using terror as a tool to achieve political objectives and pressed for “deterrent” action against such nations.