Former Foreign Minister of Pakistan and Chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, was left red-faced at a United Nations press briefing after his anti-India propaganda was busted by a foreign journalist for making unsubstantial claims that Muslims were being 'demonised' in India on Tuesday.
Zardari, while speaking on Kashmir, said, "Muslims were being demonised in India." The remarks were made at the UN headquarters.
The journalist countering Zardari's claims, "You said that the recent terrorist attack in Kashmir is being used as a political tool to demonise Muslims in India. But, sir, I have watched briefings on both sides and as far as I recall, there were Muslim Indian military officers who were conducting the briefings on the Indian side," the journalist said, leaving Zardari embarrassed.
"As far as the operations are concerned, you're absolutely right," Zardari said.
Bilawal Bhutto is currently leading a nine-memeber parliamentary delegation to the United States, tasked with presenting Pakistan's version of recent tensions with India.
The delegation met the UN Secretary-General, the president of the UN General Assembly, the ambassadors of the 14 countries of the 15-member UN Security Council, including the Chinese and Russian UN envoys, according to Geo News.
Notably, the Pakistani delegation will be in the US around the same time an Indian parliamentary delegation led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is visiting the US to highlight India's policy of zero-tolerance to terrorism.
