Dawn: FO rubbishes Modi’s fresh claim on 2016 ‘surgical strike’

Dawn: FO rubbishes Modi’s fresh claim on 2016 ‘surgical strike’
In this file photo, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends a meeting with Saudi King Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia April 3, 2016. (SPA)
Updated 20 April 2018 15:34
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Dawn: FO rubbishes Modi’s fresh claim on 2016 ‘surgical strike’

Dawn: FO rubbishes Modi’s fresh claim on 2016 ‘surgical strike’

April 20: Dawn report by Baqir Sajjad Syed states that the Foreign Office on Thursday rejected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest assertion on the so-called surgical strike of September 2016 telling New Delhi that repeating lies did not make them true. FO spokesman Dr Muhammad Faisal, speaking at the weekly media briefing, said: “Constant repetition of a fallacious claim does not make it real. The Indian government is increasingly sounding like a broken record.”

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