New Delhi: Hamid Ansari on Wednesday dismissed the claim of meeting with Nusrat Mirza, a Pakistani journalist, as a vice-president of India during a conference in New Delhi on ‘Terrorism’. He denied the claim by issuing a formal statement. He also wrote in the letter that the Indian government has all the information and it is the only authority of telling the truth.
Notably, the PAK journalist Nusrat Mirza in an interview with another journalist and international relations expert Shakti Chaudhary said he was invited by Hamid Ansari and Milli Gazette’s Zafarul Islam Khan in 2011. He also collected information and pass on to the ISI.
He further claims that days after he provided the info collected during his 2011 India visit to the ISI, he got a call from a Pakistan army brigadier seeking more such info.
Mirza is now sad that the ISI isn’t able to carry out its activities in India anymore due to FATF action. pic.twitter.com/ndNnSdzZWr
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In his statement, Hamid Ansari said, ”It is a known fact that invitations to foreign dignitaries by the Vice-President of India are on the advice of the Government generally through the Ministry of External Affairs.”
He accepted that he inaugurated the Conference on Terrorism on December 11, 2010, the ‘International Conference of Jurists on International Terrorism and Human Rights’. He added, ‘I never invited him or met him.”
Ex-vice president of India said he issued the clarification in the backdrop of a litany of falsehood unleashed on him personally in the sections of the media and by the official spokesperson of the BJP.
”I am bound by the commitment to national security in such matters and refrain from commenting on them. The government of India has all the information and is the only authority to tell the truth,” wrote Ansari in his statement.
