Hyderabad, Feb. 28 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi, on Saturday, February 28, denounced Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Israel, calling it untimely and a "betrayal of India's long-standing foreign policy" amid the escalating Iran-Israel conflict.

Drawing on India's eighty-year history of neutrality in West Asia, Owaisi questioned the Prime Minister's reason for abandoning the stance.

Nearly 10 million Indians reside in Gulf countries, he warned, asking what message the Prime Minister's visit sends to the region during heightened tensions.

If Prime Minister Modi's aircraft had been mid-air during the Israel-Iran escalation, the gravity of the situation would have been far more evident, O...