Crude hate speech, medieval mindset: India tears into Imran Khan’s UN address | India News, The Indian Express

Crude hate speech, medieval mindset: India tears into Imran Khan’s UN address | India News, The Indian Express

Written by Shubhajit Roy |New York |Updated: September 29, 2019 10:35:00 am

Crude hate speech, medieval mindset: India tears into Imran Khan’s UN address

India’s reply, given by Vidisha Maitra, a junior diplomat posted as First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of India at the United Nations, was laced with reference to Imran Khan’s surname — Niazi — which he is reluctant to use, because it carries connotations of being a traitor in Pakistan.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, the US. (Photo: REUTERS)

Hours after Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan repeated his nuclear threat against India and warned of a “bloodbath” in Jammu & Kashmir, New Delhi, in a sharp response, said Indian citizens did not need others to speak for them — and definitely not those who had “built an industry of terrorism from the ideology of hate”.