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Pak journalist’s claim: BJP again attacks Ansari; he repeats, ‘didn’t know or invite him’

The journalist, Nusrat Mirza, had claimed in a YouTube interview that he visited India five times during the UPA rule and passed on sensitive information to his country’s spy agency, ISI.

Ansari has dismissed the charge as a "litany of falsehood". (File Photo)

2 min readNew DelhiJul 15, 2022 07:38 PM IST First published on: Jul 15, 2022 at 03:47 PM IST

The BJP Friday again tried to link former Vice President Hamid Ansari with a Pakistani journalist by producing a photograph of them on the same stage at a conference in India, prompting Ansari to reiterate his stance that he neither knew nor invited the person in question.

The journalist, Nusrat Mirza, had claimed in a YouTube interview that he visited India five times during the UPA rule and passed on sensitive information to his country’s spy agency, ISI.

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At a press conference Friday, BJP national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia showed a purported picture of Ansari sharing a stage with Mirza at a 2009 conference on terrorism held in India.