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Pakistan People`s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari gesticulated and air punched as he assailed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif`s "love" for Narendra Modi at an election rally in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK)`s Bagh.He urged voters to reject Sharif`s party for his friendship with Modi, which he called "an insult`` to them citing the Indian Prime Minister`s role in "Muslim massacre`` and "state terrorism`` in Kashmir. He alluded to "Indian agents`` arrest from Sharif`s mills, saying "no eyebrows were raised`` while India even "calls a pigeon from Pakistan an agent". Bilawal recalled denial of visas to Modi and blamed Sharif`s pro-Modi policy for conferment of highest Saudi award on the Indian Prime Minister. He attacked Sharif for attending Modi`s inauguration and inviting him to Lahore while ignoring Jinnah`s birth anniversary. Bilawal`s aggression marks a throwback to the cold war era when his grandfather, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, had threatened a thousand-year war with India for truncating Pakistan. It broke with the broad political consensus that has sustained Sharif`s conciliatory policy towards Delhi despite the parity-seeking military establishment`s reservations.
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