India, May 17 -- Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday slammed Turkey's support for Pakistan, urging Ankara to rethink its stance given that India has a far larger Muslim population than Pakistan.

The AIMIM chief warned Turkey against blindly backing Pakistan and urged it to recognise the deep-rooted historical ties India shares with the country before making any decisions.

"Turkey must reconsider its stance of supporting Pakistan, and we must also remind Turkey that there is a bank called Isbank, where earlier depositors included people from India, such as from Hyderabad State and Rampur State. There are many historical connections with India, and you must know that until 1990, the Turkish language was taught in the Ladakh area," s...