Top Indian leader Shashi Tharoor is all praise for Pakistan PM Imran Khan

Top Indian leader Shashi Tharoor is all praise for Pakistan PM Imran Khan

NEW DELHI - Top Indian leader Shashi Tharoor is all praise for Pakistan PM Imran Khan over Tipu Sultan remarks.

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor showered praises on Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for his 'genuine and far reaching' interest in history.

However, the Congress leader expressed his disappointment that it took a Pakistani leader to remember the 'great Indian hero' on his death anniversary. He went on to add that Imran Khan reads and cares about subcontinent's history.

"One thing I personally know about Imran Khan is that his interest in the shared history of the Indian subcontinent is genuine and far-reaching," Tharoor wrote praising Imran Khan.

Tharoor was responding to Pakistan PM Imran Khan's recent tweet where he paid his tribute to Tipu Sultan and expressed his admiration for the 18th-century ruler of Mysore Kingdom.

"Today 4th May is the death anniversary of Tipu Sultan - a man I admire because he preferred freedom and died fighting for it rather than live a life of enslavement," Imran Khan tweeted on May 4, on the death anniversary of Tipu Sultan.