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Former RAW chief Vikram Sood talks about Mohsin Naqvi amid Asia Cup controversy(Screengrab from ANI\/Quality enhanced by AI) <\/p>\nReacting to the controversy surrounding the Asia Cup trophy, former Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) chief Vikram Sood described Pakistan as a \u201cbanana republic,\u201d saying, \u201cthat’s what we have got as a neighbour.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former RAW chief Vikram Sood talks about Mohsin Naqvi amid Asia Cup controversy(Screengrab from ANI\/Quality enhanced by AI) <\/p>\n
Sood was asked about the controversy after reports emerged that Pakistan Cricket Board Chief Mohsin Naqvi<\/a> had taken the trophy with him. Reacting to the incident in an interview with news agency ANI, he called it a \u201cbanana republic reaction.\u201d<\/p>\n “It’s hilarious… It’ll never happen anywhere in the world. That’s a banana republic reaction. That’s what we’ve got as a neighbour. A banana republic with a nuclear weapon,” the former RAW chief said.<\/p>\n He also criticised the Pakistani army for being led by ideological officers rather than professional ones. Sood called Islamabad’s <\/a>army chief Asim Munir<\/a>, a \u201cIslamin Jihadist General\u201d over his alleged remarks that \u201cHindus and Muslims cannot live together.\u201d<\/p>\n He added, \u201cCan you imagine an Indian General speaking like this? Never. Ours are professional officers; they are ideological officers. Their ideology is to rule, and their definitions of victory and defeat are different. It is a victory for them if they did not give up our land, even though people died,\u201d ANI quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n Balochistan movement gaining momentum<\/p>\n Addressing human rights violations and public unrest in Balochistan, Sood said the movement now involves educated middle-class participants, making it more serious.<\/p>\n “Balochistan is a long problem… Earlier, the middle class and the lower middle class played no role in the movements. Now it’s become middle-class… So it is more dangerous because you’ve got an educated lot of people. The movement is far more serious than I remember seeing it for the last 20 years,” he said.<\/p>\n India blasts Pak at UNHRC<\/p>\n India on Wednesday condemned Pakistan at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), accusing it of hypocrisy in lecturing other nations on human rights violations.<\/p>\n