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Pakistan would welcome a trade revival with India, but State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar said she saw no prospect of that because of frosty relations with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. Pakistan is enduring a brutal economic crisis and would benefit from improved trade links as the current cross-border flows are barely a trickle. Indian media Khar said she was a proponent of trade as a means of restoring ties but cautioned it was impossible to work with a Hindu nationalist administration in New Delhi whose support was "based on dividing India between Hindus and Muslims." "I don't think there's any scope to do anything with a very belligerent [government]," Khar said in In recent months, the toxic rhetoric has ramped up sharply. Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari called Modi "the butcher of Gujarat" in reference to sectarian riots in 2002 which killed more than 1,000 people while he was governor of the state, after Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar dubbed Pakistan Still, Khar said Islamabad was willing to reopen dialogue if India changed its tune. "Tomorrow if they decide to be statesmanlike and [seek] a legacy of peace, they will find in Pakistan not only an avid partner but an overenthusiastic one," she said. India, by contrast, says Pakistan has to take the first steps and rein in links to terror groups. Jaishankar • Latest news, analysis and comment from POLITICO’s editors and guest writers in Europe. • Latest...

By India Today Web Desk: Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday lashed out at the ruling BJP after a saffron party leader allegedly announced a Rs 2 crore bounty on his head over his objectionable remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In an interview with Bloomberg, Zardari doubled down on his Foreign Minister of Pakistan Responding to a query, Zardari also downplayed fellow minister He, however, stated that he considered the threats against him by the BJP leader as “crossing the line”. “I think you have crossed the line when you officially announce head money for your neighbouring country’s foreign minister’s assassination,” the Pakistani foreign minister said. Responding to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s ‘Osama killed in Pakistan’ remark at the UN, Pakistan’s foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari attacked PM Modi over the 2002 Gujarat riots. “(I want to tell India) that Osama bin Laden is dead, but the butcher of Gujarat lives and he is the Prime Minister of India. He (PM Modi) was banned from entering this country until he became the prime minister. This is the prime minister of the RSS and the foreign minister of the RSS. What is the RSS? The RSS takes inspiration from Hitler’s SS,” Zardari said. The BJP had termed Zardari's personal comments against PM Narendra Modi as "highly shameful and derogatory" and READ |

Bilawal said that Pakistan would host the SCO conference in 2026-2027 and there was hope the Indian counterpart would attend the meeting. File photo. Pakistan Foreign Minister and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has sparked a major controversy with his remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Thursday (December 15). Zardari’s statement has, expectedly, irked India, prompting a sharp response from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). It has also led to protests by the BJP workers. But who is Zardari? What did he say? And how has India reacted to his statement? How has he courted controversies in the past? Let’s take a look: Who is Bilawal Bhutto Zardari? Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, 34, is the son of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in 2007, and the grandson of another former Pakistan Prime Minister late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Currently serving as the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman, he became the country’s youngest foreign minister (at the age of 33) in April this year. Born in September 1988, Bilawal has two younger sisters — Bakhtawar and Aseefa. An Oxford graduate and a black belt in Taekwondo, he inherited the reins of the PPP days after his mother’s assassination. Addressing a press conference where he was announced as Benazir Bhutto’s successor, Bilawal had said that his father Asif Ali Zardari would run the PPP till he finishes his study. Also read: BB...

The recent statement of Pakistani foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in America has created a new low in the field of diplomacy. His uncivilized, unparliamentary, abusive, and baseless statement about the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi is not only being criticised globally but no one in Pakistan is also ready to support a motormouth like Bilawal. Bhutto made a statement saying, "While Osama is dead, the Butcher of Gujarat lives & he is the prime minister of India." Bhutto even took a jib at RSS, the patron organisation of the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party, and equated it with Hitler’s Schutzstaffel or SS. But interestingly, not a single channel in Pakistan discussed this in any debate, not a single newspaper wrote an editorial on this and not a single politician from the ruling or non-ruling elites of Pakistan made a statement. In Pakistan, this was just a news byline that faded away the next day. READ |DNA Special: Bilawal Bhutto’s attack on PM Modi increases troubles for Pakistan So, it is pertinent for him to create a space in the emerging politics of Pakistan where all parties have joined hands against Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) is struggling to exist. So, to have his position secure, he keeps making frivolous statements and the statement made on December 15, 2022, at the United Nations was another example of this. We all know that the very foundation on which Pakistan was created was “Hatred against India”. Both countries have fought ...

What the US has to say about Pakistan minister Bilawal Bhutto's remarks about Narendra Modi The United States, as stated by the State Department spokesperson Ned Price, has multifaceted relationships with both India and Pakistan and does not want a ‘war of words’ but rather a constructive dialogue between the two countries Washington: US shares multifaceted relationships with India and Pakistan and does not want to see a “war of words” but a constructive dialogue between the two nations for the betterment of their people, a top US official has said. Relations between India and Pakistan have often been strained over the Kashmir issue and cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan. “We have a global strategic partnership with India. I have also spoken about the deep partnership we have with Pakistan. These relationships in our mind are not zero-sum. We do not view them in relation to one another,” US State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters at his daily news conference on Monday when asked about the recent outburst against Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Pakistan to release 200 Indian fishermen, 2 civilians India, US near deal to build jet engines in boost to PM Modi Price said each of these relationships is indispensable to the US and to the promotion and pursuit of the shared goals that the US has with India and Pakistan. “The fact that we have partnerships with both countries leaves us not wanting to see a war of words between India and Pakistan. We woul...

NEW YORK/NEW DELHI: As the ruling BJP organised demonstrations in various parts of India to protest Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s remarks about the Indian prime minister, the Pakistani foreign minister urged the Narendra Modi-led party on Saturday to protest against unrelenting discrimination and hatred that Indian Muslims face in their own country, instead of protesting against him. At a news conference inside the UN earlier this week, Mr Bhutto-Zardari had He was responding to his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar’s remarks who, for two days in a row, had called Pakistan “the host of Osama bin Laden” and the “perpetrator of terrorism.” “My comments were based in history, and it is difficult to distort history,” said Mr Bhutto-Zardari when asked about the FO terms India’s remarks ‘reflection of Delhi’s growing frustration’; BJP holds protests Talking to the Pakistani media in New York, he said: “The history is a witness to the role the current Indian prime minister played in Gujarat. No matter how hard the BJP or RSS protests, they cannot distort history.” The foreign minister said he did not coin the term “Butcher of Gujarat, Indian citizens gave this title to him (Modi). So, no matter how much you protest, you cannot change facts.” “They must also condemn the Muslim genocide in Gujarat, and condemn the way Muslims in India, who are the largest minority in the world, are treated. I wish... they had also protested for their own Muslim citizens — who are now the victims of discr...

Foreign Minister Bilawal-Bhutto Zardari has defended his recent remarks about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that he was referring to “a historical fact”. At a news conference inside the UN last week, Bilawal had He was responding to his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar’s remarks who, for two days in a row, had called Pakistan “the host of Osama bin Laden” and the “perpetrator of terrorism.” The Indian government had heavily criticised Bilawal’s remarks while workers of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had In an interview with Bloomberg published today, the foreign minister said: “I was referring to a historical reality. The remarks I used were not my own. I did not call […] I did not invent the term ‘Butcher of Gujarat’ for Mr Modi. The Muslims in India following the Gujarat riots used that term for Mr Modi. “I believe I was referring to a historical fact, and they believe that repeating history is a personal insult,” he said. “It’s been two days since my remark — a member of Mr Modi’s party has announced a 20 million rupee bounty on my head. So, I don’t think the best way to disprove the fact that Mr Modi is the ‘Butcher of Gujarat’ is to adopt such extreme steps,” he said. He reiterated the same in a tweet, saying: “The reaction in India to my speaking about historical facts, and reminding them of their own past, is a member of the ruling BJP putting a bounty on my head”. “It is an extreme reaction and underlines and reinforces the points I made at t...