'Repeating a lie doesn't turn it into the truth,' says Pak on PM Modi's surgical strike statement

After PM Modi said the surgical strikes against Pakistan in September 2016 were a 100 per cent success, the Pakistan foreign office said today that "by continuously repeating a lie, it doesn't turn into the truth."

Speaking at Westminster Central Hall on Wednesday evening PM Modi had said that India waited to inform Pakistan about the operation before disclosing it to the media and the people.

"I said before India gets to know, we should call Pakistan and tell them. We were calling them since 11am but they were scared to come on phone, at 12 we spoke to them and then told the Indian media," Modi had said.

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Pakistan foreign office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said India's claims about"surgical strikes were false and baseless".

"Repeating a lie doesn't turn it into the truth," the spokesperson was quoted as saying by Pakistan's Dawn newspaper.

"These statements are nothing but a figment of imagination," the foreign office spokesman added.

Faisal,in fact, hit back at India saying that it was quite the other way around, accusing India of backing terrorists in Pakistan.

"Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav is proof of Indian state-sponsored terrorism," he said.

Jadhav was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism last year however India moved the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the verdict.

In response, the ICJ halted his execution on India's appeal pending the final verdict.