Karachi-based entirely mostly Nusrat Mirza, who has written columns in Nawa-i-Waqt and Jang newspapers and now hosts a programme on Such TV, is known in the Pakistan media fraternity as a “identify dropper” and “self-projector”.
On Wednesday, BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia centered Ansari, and cited “television stories and social media” to assert Mirza had stated that Ansari invited him to India and shared sensitive and secret data — charges that Ansari rejected, calling it a “litany of falsehood”.
Bhatia perceived to accept as true with based entirely mostly these allegations on an interview of Mirza by Pakistani YouTuber Shakil Chaudhary.
In the interview, Mirza makes two passing mentions of Ansari, but would no longer divulge he had any dialog with the then Vice President.
In the first reference, he stated he had long gone to Delhi and attended a convention on terrorism “in 2010, when Hamid Ansari was as soon as the Vice-President”.
Responding to the BJP’s smear attack on him, Ansari has stated that on December 11, 2010, he inaugurated the ‘International Convention of Jurists on International Terrorism and Human Rights’, for which the list of invitees would accept as true with been drawn by the organisers, and that he neither invited nor met Mirza.
In the interview, Mirza mentions Ansari again when he says he met many “Congress leaders” alongside side Ansari. Nevertheless he makes no relate level out of assembly Ansari and talking to him.
Mirza didn’t respond to phone calls and messages from The Indian Explicit for teach.
Projecting himself as an “India skilled”, Mirza tells interviewer Chaudhary that he visited several locations in India, that he had a seven-city visa for India, and visited in 2005 and 2006.
More than as soon as all the procedure thru the route of the 50-minute interview, Mirza laments that his data and skills of India was as soon as in no procedure taken severely by “any individual” in Pakistan, and maybe with time, his contribution to strategic affairs could well maybe be realised.
He was as soon as responding to Chaudhury’s demand that if India was as soon as certainly such an existential likelihood to Pakistan, why there accept as true with been no Pakistani “India experts” who had studied all facets of the nation. Mirza stated he knew about India, Indian Muslims, and that he could well maybe also count many mates among them.
He stated that after a seek recommendation from in 2006 all the procedure thru which he visited several cities, then Pakistan International Minister Khurshid Kasuri — he claimed Kasuri bought him a seven-city India visa (in general Pakistani guests in the intervening time bought entirely a three-city visa) — told him to coast on the final data to then ISI DG Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
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“I stated I’m no longer going to meet Kayani, it is likely you’ll well maybe also coast it on to him,” Mirza tells Chaudhury, claiming that about a days later, he bought a call from “a Brigadier” who asked him if he needed to any extent extra data. “I instructed him haven’t I given you satisfactory, work on this.”
He stated Pakistan understood India properly “kyon ki hum Mughal hai, hum ne hukmarani ki thi, we understand them.”
Journalists in Pakistan expressed incredulity that “a non-entity” esteem Mirza was as soon as ever on talking phrases with Kasuri. A regular in Kasuri’s inner circle of journalists instructed The Indian Explicit that he had in no procedure seen Mirza or heard Kasuri pronounce about him. “His entire myth falls flat real there,” a senior journalist stated.
Chaudhury, whose interview perceived to be an are trying to debunk most definitely the most theories that Mirza peddles on his focus on disclose and columns, says he bought “the particular affect” that his visitor was as soon as “identify losing” and “attempting to venture himself” as any individual who knew extra than he did.
In the interview, the YouTuber reminded Mirza about the columns in which he had claimed that the 2005 earthquake and the 2010 floods in Pakistan and the 2011 tsunami accept as true with been engineered by the “Amreeki” (People).
Mirza stated he stood by what he had stated then as the US desired to manipulate the enviornment thru “climate modification”. He also referred to the US military’s HAARP surveillance venture as having precipitated these disasters. Suggested that this had been refuted by properly-known scientists comparable to Pervez Hoodbhoy, Mirza stated he didn’t care about “any Hoodbhoy”, and that he was as soon as real.