New Delhi, Feb 18: Even as India has rejected “motivated” comments on the hijab issue, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has invited a sharp rebuke from the Indian Embassy in Kuwait for retweeting a post by a “Pakistani agent” who alleged “Muslim girls are being persecuted” in India. The Indian embassy in Kuwait hit out at the Congress MP for retweeting what it said was an “anti-India tweet” by a “Pakistani agent”, and said that such anti-India elements should not be encouraged. “Sad to see an Hon’ble Member of Indian Parliament retweeting an anti-India tweet by a Pakistani agent who was recipient of a Pakistani Award ‘Ambassador of Peace’ for his anti-India activities. We should not encourage such anti-India elements,” the Indian Embassy tweeted, which was retweeted by the MEA official spokesperson Arindam Bagchi. The sharp response came after Tharoor in a tweet said: “Domestic actions have international repercussions. I hear from friends across the Gulf of their dismay at rising Islamophobia in India & the PM’s unwillingness to condemn it, let alone act decisively against it. “We like India. But don’t make it so hard for us to be your friends”. His comments came while retweeting a post that read: “A group of powerful Kuwaiti parliamentarians have demanded the govt. of Kuwait to put an immediate ban on the entry of any member of the ruling BJP of India into Kuwait. We can’t sit back and watch muslim girls being publicly persecuted they said. Time for the Ummah to unite.”
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