Ansari stands by comment, asserts he never knew or invited Pak journalist to any conference

Hamid Ansari row: Setting apart back-to-back assaults by Bharatiya Janata Occasion, ex-Vice President Hamid Ansari stated he stands by his assertion. Ansari had earlier stated that he by no means knew or invited Pakistan journalist Misrat Mirza to any convention. 

Mirza has claimed that he had visited India 5 occasions throughout the UPA rule and handed on delicate data to his nation’s spy company ISI. Mirza purportedly commented that he had visited India on Ansari’s invites and likewise met him.

Ansari, nonetheless, dismissed the cost as a “litany of falsehood”.

The BJP on Friday stepped up its assault on the Congress over the matter and cited {a photograph} of Ansari and Mirza purportedly sharing the stage throughout a 2009 convention in India on terrorism.

“The previous Vice President of India stands by his earlier assertion that he by no means knew or invited Pakistan journalist Nusrat Mirza to any convention, together with the 2010 convention talked about by Nusrat Mirza or 2009 convention on terrorism or on some other event,” a press release from Ansari’s workplace stated.

Rebutting the BJP’s declare of inviting Mirza, Ansari had a few days earlier stated it’s a identified incontrovertible fact that invites to international dignitaries by the Vice-President of India are on the recommendation of the federal government, usually via the Ministry of Exterior Affairs.

Clips of Pakistani journalist Mirza’s interview in Pakistan have been doing the rounds on social media for the previous few days by which he acknowledged that he attended a seminar on terrorism in India by which Ansari spoke.

Mirza additionally claimed to have given secret and labeled data to the Pakistani spy company Inter-Companies Intelligence (ISI).

(With inputs from PTI)

Additionally Learn: Senior advocate shares pic of Hamid Ansari ‘fraternizing’ with Pak journalist spying for ISI; BJP backs claims

Newest India Information