ANAS Sarwar’s ex-Labour MP dad has been slammed over a tweet branding 9/11 a “hoax”.
Mohammad Sarwar, 71, was branded “irresponsible” after his X account posted a controversial video about the 2001 terror atrocity.
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It claims the plane attacks on New York’s Twin Towers and the Pentagon, in which almost 3,000 were killed, were a “huge deception”.
And it alleges the US Government did this “to extend imperial control at home and abroad”.
Mr Sarwar Sr was a Glasgow MP from 1997 to 2010 before returning to his native Pakistan, where he was Governor of Punjab.
Scottish Labour leader Anas, 40, has referred to him as “my hero”.
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The Scots Tories said it was “appalling and irresponsible” for Mr Sarwar’s X account — which has 1.9million followers — “to lend credence to this offensive conspiracy theory”.
A spokesman added: “It’s all the more astonishing given he was a Labour MP under Tony Blair at the time of 9/11.”
The post was deleted after we alerted Labour.
Chiefs said: “9/11 was one of the most atrocious terrorist acts in history.
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“This tweet does not represent the view of Anas Sarwar or Scottish Labour.”