Terming "Pakistan was humiliated” 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 asked what benefit was gained from Bhutto's trip to India, reports PTI.
The remarks come after Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar mounted an offensive against Bhutto Zardari in his address at the SCO meeting, contending Pakistan foreign minister's statement that terrorism shouldn't be "weaponised for diplomatic point-scoring", in remarks seen as directed at India.
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.
On this, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief said, "Pakistan’s foreign minister should have calculated the cost-benefit ratio before embarking on this diplomatically risky journey."
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