- Thursday, May 02, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
FORMER Indian vice president Hamid Ansari was trolled on Twitter on Tuesday (12) after Pakistani columnist Nusrat Mirza, who has visited India many times during the Indian National Congress’ rule, boasted on camera that he used to pass on information collected during his visits to his country’s intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
During a virtual interview with Pakistani journalist and political analyst Shakil Chaudhary, Mirza, who claimed that he was invited when Ansari was the vice president (2007-17), said he had received various privileges from the foreign affairs department of Pakistan during his visits to India. “I was invited to India at the time of vice presidency of Mohammad Hamid Ansari,” he said.
Pakistani journalist Nusrat Mirza claims he had spied on India during visits, was invited by Vice President Hamid Ansari and passed information to Pak Army.
He visited India many times during the Congress rule.#HamidAnsari #CongressSupportsTerrorpic.twitter.com/Cvk6bFBZBf
— ɅMɅN DUВΞY (@imAmanDubey) July 12, 2022
Ansari is a retired diplomat and served as the vice president when under the prime ministership of Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi.
Mirza shared that “usually when you apply for a visa to India, they only allow you to visit three places. However, at that time, Khurshid Kasuri (Pakistani politician and writer who served as the minister of foreign affairs of Pakistan between November 2002 till November 2007) was the foreign minister who helped me to get a visa for seven cities.”
“I have visited India five times. I have visited Delhi, Banglore, Chennai, Patna and Kolkata as well. In 2011, I also met with the Milli Gazette’s publisher Zafarul Islam Khan.”
Zafarul-Islam Khan is a former chairman of the Delhi Minorities Commission and founder-editor of the Milli Gazette, Indian Muslims’ leading news source.
Mirza continued the interview by bragging about how he “fully understands” India and its outlook. He said that though he handed down the information to the Pakistani leadership however no one seemed to pay any attention to it due to leadership issues.
“Though I agree I am not an expert, I understand their (India’s) culture. I know about their weaknesses. But the problem is the experience I gathered about India is not being used due to lack of good leadership in Pakistan,” he said.
“I think I understand how India functions. I have studied the circumstances in which Indian Muslims live. I am friends with all the editors of Urdu papers in India. Many news channel owners are good friends. Whenever I have visited India, I have given several interviews.”
“I know where separatist movements are happening. But no one wants to exploit the information. The separatist movements are happening in all regions of India. There is no doubt about that. I used to say there were 26 movements ongoing, but someone said now there are 67 such movements.”
Ansari was slammed by social media users after the interview of Mirza surfaced and he was accused as a traitor who helped Pakistan get information from his country.
Here is what the Twitterati said:
Views on #HamidAnsari ?
It is still hard to digest that traitors can scale to such high offices.— Rashmi Samant (@RashmiDVS) July 12, 2022
.@rishibagree Many were surprised at #PMModi's cryptic comments at Hamid Ansari's farewell and some even criticised him for a lukewarm send-off. #Modi had clearly seen thru him. But what made #SoniaGandhi give him 2 terms and even consider for President? #HamidAnsari https://t.co/8cZpbRXYQJ
— GhoseSpot (@SandipGhose) July 12, 2022
India's worst vice president #HamidAnsari pic.twitter.com/lyCWikMa5Z
— sandeep singh chauhan (@SSRajput0707) July 12, 2022
Failure of India as democracy: Such a big traitor occupied India's 2nd highest office. Arrest the traitor #HamidAnsari pic.twitter.com/KFCBGHoDts
— Radharamn Das राधारमण दास (@RadharamnDas) July 12, 2022
Religion is same
The only difference was in the character.Patriotic President Treacherous V.P pic.twitter.com/OOL2geuYXb
— Anti-Mulla (@Mulleharamihai) July 12, 2022
A Traitor during "Republic Day 2015" didn't Salute the Indian Flag "Hamid Ansari #HamidAnsari #Traitors #Pakistani #Shameful pic.twitter.com/gCFXqxNrcj
— lydiaapynz (@ludiaapynz) July 12, 2022
If #HamidAnsari is guilty of the charges, what good would his clarification do? In either case, his response would be denial.
The real question is, what are the country's investigative agencies doing? https://t.co/KYbGglNsMa
— Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ (@sankrant) July 12, 2022
[With ANI inputs]
