Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari calling the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi the "Temu version" of the genocidal Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has left the internet divided but garnered more praise than criticism.

 

“Mr. Modi is sort of the Temu version of Netanyahu… A poor copy,” Bilawal said while addressing a press conference at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York on Tuesday.

 

“Mr. Modi started off as being perceived as the butcher of Gujarat. When done, he went on to become the butcher of Kashmir; now he aspires to be the butcher of the Indus Valley civilisation,” Bilawal remarked.

 

Chairman PPP, along with former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar, Khurram Dastgir, Senators Sherry Rehman, Musadik Malik, Faisal Sabzwari, Bushra Anjum Butt, as well as diplomats Jalil Abbas Jilani and Tehmina Janjua, are part of the Pakistani delegation tasked with addressing the global community about Pakistan's Point of View in response to India’s delegation on Operation Sindoor.

 

It is not the first time that the Chairman of the PPP has belittled the Indian PM. In 2022, when he was the Foreign Minister, he had said in a press conference in New York that Al Qaeda leader “Osama Bin Laden is dead; however, the butcher of Gujarat is alive, and he is the Prime Minister of India.”

 

Internet users took no time to react to the statement. While some praised Bilawal for not mincing his words against the hypernationalist Indian PM, others maintained that analogy disparaged the ShopTemu.

 

A social media user said that Bilawal’s statement “will be remembered in history forever.” Another user sarcastically wrote, “The team ‘Temu’ has expressed its displeasure at being associated with Prime Minister Modi.”

 

 

The third user said, “Bilawal Bhutto has just nailed it.”

 

“This boy is astonishing everyone with his remarkable ability to express himself. Along with reasoning, logic, history, and laws, he also brings a touch of humor. Believe me, in the coming years, he will be loved in Pakistan and around the world,” wrote another user.

 

One of the users wrote, “I truly appreciate this. Looking at the current cabinet, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari genuinely was the most sensible choice to present Pakistan's case.”

 

“I take strong exception to this insult to Temu by Bilawal. We should avoid such unfair comparison,” said another netizen.

 

Meanwhile, former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Asad Umar wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “Bilawal Bhutto in a media talk has rightly critiqued Modi and compared him with Netanyahu. Unfortunately, the analogy he used was disparaging for @shoptemu. He should know that Temu is not a poor copy.

 

"Even in the USA, it has been the app with the fastest growing user base, and its global user base is now within 10% of Amazon and set to overtake it. This western narrative of Chinese being poor copies is dated and Pakistani's should know this better than anyone else after the dominance of chinese technology in the post pehelgam conflict with India (sic).”