India slams Bilawal Bhutto for his remarks against PM Modi, calls it "uncivilised outburst" and "a new low even for Pakistan"

India today slammed Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto's reprehensible comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling them "uncivilised" and "a new low even by Pakistan's standards".

The MEA said that the Pakistan FM's "uncivilised outburst" seems to be a result of his country's increasing inability to use terrorists and their proxies.

It further added that his frustration would be better directed towards masterminds of terrorist enterprises in his own country.


"No country other than Pakistan can boast having 126 global terrorists, 27 UN-banned terror groups. Pakistan glorifies Osama bin Laden as a martyr; shelters terrorists like Hafiz Saeed, Masood Azhar," the MEA said.

Bhutto's comments came under severe criticism from the BJP leaders as well.

Lashing out at Bhutto for his "butcher of Gujarat" jibe at Modi, Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakashi Lekhi said nothing better can be expected from Pakistan as these are the persons who have butchered people in Balochistan.

"Normally that is not the way External Affairs Minister of any sovereign nation speaks. But it is Pakistan. What can you expect from it? These are the people who have butchered people in Balochistan. These are the people who have butchered people in Kashmir. These are the butchers of Punjab. These are the butchers of Karachi," she told reporters.

Bhutto made the comments following India's External Affairs minister S Jaishankar's sharp attack on Pakistan over its support to terrorism at the United Nations Security Council meeting.

BJP's foreign affairs department head Vijay Chauthaiwale said no one takes Bhutto's comments seriously even in Pakistan. "He is Pakistan's pappu and remains one," he said.