Hyderababd MP and AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owasi has said that though Pakistan's standard time was 30 minutes behind India's, in reality the Islamic republic was lagging behind India by half a century.
Responding to criticism from Pakistani leaders over India's reaction to the Pahalgam attack, Owaisi said:
"Our military budget is bigger than your national budget. Pakistani leaders should not threaten India with a nuclear war.
They should remember that if they kill innocent people in another country, no one will remain silent".
Post-Pahalgam terror attack, Owaisi, while addressing a public meeting at Prabhani in Maharashtra to oppose the Waqf (Amendment) Act, said - the terrorists asking the religion of tourists before killing them was something unbecming.
"Which religion are you talking about? You are worse than the Khawarij. This act shows you are the successors of ISIS," he had said around April 2-28, 2025.
The history of his AIMIM and the Razakars is intertwined, but Owaisi has been unsparing, and one of the most vocal critics of Pakistan, even when some senior Congress leaders have gone soft and even embarrassed the leadership of the grand old party.
It s being argued now that by doing so, Owaisi is foiling Pakistan's most devious and diabolical gameplan.
That AIMIM chief tore into Pakistan shouldn't come as a surprise to many because though a right-wing politician vis-a-vis Muslims; he is a nationalist., as they put it. Owaisi has a knack of keeping himself among headlines by his eloquent criticism of the BJP and the Modi government.
In 2021 he hit headlines when after Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief O P Rajbhar's statement in Uttar Pradesh that had Muhammed Ali Jinnah should have been made the first Prime Minister of India to avoid partition, the AIMIM chief had said that Congress leaders of that time were responsible for partition.
However, quite often he has been flayed for 'dividing' Muslim votes in states such as Bihar (2020) and thereby helping the BJP and the NDA.
But coming to Pahalgam, he has made blistering attack on Pakistan.
"This act [Pahalgam attack] shows you are the successors of ISIS," Owaisi said, referring to the massacre of 26 people who were singled out as non-Muslims and shot dead from close range in south Kashmir on April 22.
According to writer and historian Patrick French, Owaisi appeals to "non-sectarian Muslim identity", though not to the Muslim faith, in a way similar to Jinnah's bid to be the sole spokesman of the Muslim community.
His brand of Islamism with nationalism thrives in Hyderabad Old City.
Hitting out strongly at Pakistan politician and former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's "blood will flow" remark, AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said the Pakistan People's Party leader should remember who killed his mother Benazir Bhutto.
Bilawal Bhutto, who served as Pakistan's Foreign Affairs Minister till 2023 and continues to be part of the ruling coalition, had said -- "The Indus is ours and will remain ours - either our water will flow through it, or their blood".
Owaisi has reacted saying: "Forget about such childish talk.
He doesn't know what happened to his grandfather? His mother? His mother was killed by terrorists. So at least, he should not be speaking like this.
Do you even know what you are talking about? Unless the US gives you something, you cannot run the country and you are trying to stare us down."
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