New Delhi: A major controversy erupted today over Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif purportedly calling his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh a “village woman” with Narendra Modi terming it as the “biggest insult” of the Prime Minister.
“How dare you (Sharif) address my nation's Prime Minister as a village woman? There cannot be a bigger insult of the Indian Prime Minister. We can fight with him on policies but this we will not tolerate. This nation of 1.2 billion will not tolerate its Prime Minister's insult,” Modi, BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate, said at a huge rally here.
The controversy has its roots in a comment by a well-known Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir on Geo TV that Sharif had used this description “dehati aurat” (village woman) during a breakfast meeting with him and NDTV's Barkha Dutt yesterday while expressing his unhappiness that Singh complained to US President Barack Obama about Sharif on Pakistan.
