Earlier, Qureshi on Thursday said Prime Minister Imran Khan bowled a "googly" to ensure Indian government's presence at the groundbreaking ceremony of the landmark Kartarpur Corridor.
Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has made a jibe at External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, in a derogatory statement that could be termed misogynistic.
“I don’t know what happened, while I can’t say that Sushma ji felt shy at this age, it seems Indian politics had come in between,” Qureshi said Thursday evening, according to a report in The Print.
Earlier, Qureshi on Thursday said Prime Minister Imran Khan bowled a "googly" to ensure Indian government's presence at the groundbreaking ceremony of the landmark Kartarpur Corridor.
Qureshi's remarks came a day after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj categorically ruled out the possibility of resumption of bilateral talks with Pakistan unless it stops cross-border terror activities against India.
Qureshi said that opening of the Kartarpur border was a "big achievement" of the cricketer-turned-politician's government, which on Thursday completed the first 100 days in office after winning the general elections.
Qureshi noted that it was the same Indian government that had said it will not engage with Pakistan.
He said a meeting with Indian counterpart Swaraj was fixed on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last year but it was cancelled by India.
He also said that India refused to engage even after the letter written by Prime Minister Khan to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to resume bilateral talks.
He was referring to the letter Khan wrote in September, seeking to seeking to re-start the bilateral talks.
Nearly 24 hours after agreeing to have a bilateral meeting between Swaraj and Qureshi on the sidelines of the UNGA, India called off the meeting, citing the brutal killings of three policemen in Jammu and Kashmir and Islamabad releasing postage stamps "glorifying" Kashmiri militant Burhan Wani.
"Tensions with India are not hidden from anyone but our approach is people-centric and we need peace for people to prosper. We need peace in order to speed up the development of our country," Qureshi said.
He recalled that "Imran Khan said he will take two steps for every one step India takes." Qureshi also condemned the violence in Kashmir and said that Pakistan always stood with people of Kashmir and would always stand by them.
"This is one issue on which all political parties are united," he said.
Speaking on Pakistan's "achievements" in international relations during the first 100 days of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government, Qureshi said that Pakistan's case at global level was not heard before something he said his ministry was trying to address.
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