NEW DELHI: National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday dismissed allegations that the Congress colluded with Pakistan to defeat the BJP in the recently concluded assembly polls and stated categorically, “Pakistan does not conspire (Pakistan koi saazish nahin karta), reported Times of India.
Scoffing at the PM’s charge, Abdullah said that Modi had gone to Pakistan for a meal when he paid a surprise visit to Lahore and attended former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s grand daughter’s wedding ceremony. Did the Pakistanis conspire against PM Modi back then, Abdullah pointedly enquired.
He then made the following assertion : “Pakistan koi saazish nahi karta (Pakistan doesn’t engage in conspiracies).”
Last week, Modi claimed a meeting took place recently in (now suspended) Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar’s house that was attended by Pakistan’s high commissioner, its former foreign affairs minister, former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh and former vice-president Hamid Ansari. He said that the ‘real colluder’ with Pakistan was the BJP, whose government gave Pakistani officials access to the country’s top air force base in Pathankot after a terror attack there.
