Union minister hits back at Asaduddin Owaisi’s Indian woman remark: ‘Let her go to Afghanistan’
Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shobha Karandlaje on Friday hit back at AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi for drawing a parallel between the condition of women in India and Afghanistan. He also suggested sending the leader to a war-torn country to protect his women and his community.
“It is better to send him (Asaduddin Owaisi) to Afghanistan to protect his women and his community,” Karandlaje said.
Owaisi raised many eyebrows when he tried to draw a parallel line between the condition of women in India and the condition of women in war-torn Afghanistan. He said the government should be more concerned about the atrocities and crimes against women in India than what the Taliban is doing to women in the country.
“According to a report, one in nine women in India dies before the age of 5. Women are subjected to atrocities and crimes. But, they (Centre) are worried about what will happen to women in Afghanistan. Is it happening here?” According to news agency ANI, he asked while speaking at an event on Thursday.
Owaisi said that Pakistan has benefited the most from the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. He said Pakistan’s notorious spy agency ISI is India’s enemy and “you must remember that ISI controls Taliban and uses it as a puppet”.
“Experts are saying that al-Qaeda and Daesh have reached some areas of Afghanistan,” the Hyderabad MP said.
Owaisi had earlier said that India should have held talks with the Taliban but the Modi government wasted seven years and failed to read what was happening in Afghanistan. He said all international security experts had suggested that India should hold talks with the Taliban.
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan two weeks before the United States was ready to complete its troop withdrawal.
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