New Delhi, July 7 -- US Senator Rick Scott on Tuesday criticised Pakistan's role in efforts to support peace between the United States and Iran, accusing Islamabad of sending contradictory signals after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attended the funeral of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran.

Scott's comments followed Sharif's appearance at the funeral ceremony, where the Pakistani premier paid tribute to Khamenei.

In a social media post on X, Scott wrote:"We need to remember who Pakistan really is in the middle of all this. We're talking about a country where bin Laden hid out for a decade, where they selectively enforce lopsided blasphemy laws to persecute Christians, and where the Prime Minister just praised t...