After so many controversial remarks being made by Pakistani minister Rehman Malik, BJP has asked UPA government to explain why he was given an invitation to visit the country.

“What Rehman Malik said was unwarranted, unprovoked. We strongly condemn it. I want to ask the Home Minister why Malik was allowed to come if his visit to India was with an agenda. Why didn’t the government respond to all this strongly?” said BJP’s Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Meanwhile, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde disclosed some information of his counterpart’s visit in the Rajya Sabha. Indications are that he will share information later with the Lok Sabha.

Malik was in India to introduce a new and straightforward visa routine for cross-border travel. However, his trip was headlined by number of contentious remarks including his allegation that an intelligence agency may have been linked in country’s worst-ever terror attack in 2008, in which 166 people lost their life in Mumbai by ten Pakistani terrorists.

What’s more, Malik compare the Mumbai attacks to the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992, though he later backtracked from his remarks.

He also said that though Pakistan has nothing to do with Hafiz Saeed, India is not able to give proof that Saeed masterminded the Mumbai attacks.