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'Hope He Got Food For Thought': Shashi Tharoor Mocks Asim Munir's Lunch With Donald Trump
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Shashi Tharoor took a jibe at Asim Munir's meeting with Donald Trump, implying it was a reward for praising the US President. He hoped Munir got "food for thought" with the lunch.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday took a dig at Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir, who was hosted at the White House by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, and hoped he must have got 'food for thought" while having lunch with Trump.
Tharoor said that according to the White House, Munir had once said that Trump should be conferred the Nobel Peace Prize. Soon after, he was rewarded with a lunch there, he said.
'I haven't seen the outcome of the meeting," Tharoor said, on being asked to comment on the Trump-Munir meeting.
'According to the White House, this general had said that the President should get the Nobel Peace Prize, and then he was rewarded with a lunch. I hope the food was good and he has also got some food for thought in the process," the Congress MP said.
Tharoor also said he hoped that the United States would remind Pakistan the relevance of not supporting terrorism to breed on its soil, and that the United States must not have forgotten the World Trade Centres attacks on September 11, 2001.
'I hope the Americans will remind Pakistan of the great importance of not supporting terrorism, of not enabling, equipping, financing and dispatching terrorists to our country," Tharoor said.
'It is our hope that everyone in the US government must not have forgotten the Osama bin Laden episode," he added.
'I hope while the general (Asim Munir) was being wined or lunched and munched, at the same time, he would have got some messages that would also be in America's interest," Tharoor remarked.
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June 19, 2025, 13:54 IST
