New Delhi: Taking strong exception to Pakistan`s glorification of BurhanWani, the Centre has stressed on the need for international community coming together in condemning Pakistan`s “support and sponsorship” of terror.

"First Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson read from banned LeT's script. Now Pakistan's COAS Gen QamarJavedBajwaglorifies BurhanWani.

Pakistan's terror support and sponsorship needs to be condemned by one and all," foreign ministry spokesperson GopalBaglay said in a tweet.

Baglay was referring to a tweet from the official Twitter handle of Pakistan Army spokesperson Maj Gen AsifGhafoor, who said army chief Gen QamarJavedBajwa had reportedly eulogisedHizbul terrorist BurhanWani on July 8, the day he was killed in an encounter with Indian security forces in Kashmir last year. 

"Kashmiris have right of self-determination. Sacrifices of BurhanWani and generations against Indian atrocities are a testimony of their resolve," Ghafoor had tweeted quoting Gen Bajwa on Saturday.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif too paid tributes to Wani on Saturday and said his death had galvanised Kashmir's movement for self-determination.
"The blood rendered by BurhanMuzaffarWani has infused a new spirit in the freedom movement. The Kashmiri people are steadfast to take their movement to logical conclusion," Sharif had said.

Earlier, Pakistan's Foreign Office had come out in defence of HizbulMujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin and said his designation as a global terrorist by the United States was "completely unjustified". 

At the recently concluded G-20 Summit in Germany, Prime Minister NarendraModi had made a strong pitch for action against countries that provide a platform to terror organisations for political ends. Bracketing Pakistan-based terror groups like LeT and JeM with ISIS and al-Qaeda, PM Modi said G20 nations should also "collectively oppose terrorism financing, franchises, safe havens, support and sponsors."