Pakistan ‘will go to any lengths’ to support Kashmir’s cause, Imran tells his countrymen
AGENCIES / ISLAMABAD
PAKISTAN Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that India’s decision to revoke Article 370 would prove to be a ‘historic blunder’ by Narendra Modi’s government in Kashmir.
“Time will prove that the Indian government has given an opportunity to the Kashmiri people to get their freedom. They [India] have played their last card,” he said in a televised address to the nation.
Imran’s speech came as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump met at the G7 in France yesterday.
“We spoke last night about Kashmir, the prime minister [Modi] really feels he has it under control,” said Trump while talking to media. Modi, meanwhile, said all issues between India and Pakistan are bilateral, adding: “I’m confident that we can discuss our problems and solve them together.”
On August 5, India had abolished Article 370 that granted a special status to the Indian-occupied Kashmir, sent troops to the valley, and put the former chief ministers and Kashmiri politicians under house arrest.
Imran assured the Kashmiri people that Pakistan would continue to stand with them even if the rest of the world does not and said he would become Kashmir’s ambassador globally.
“I will raise the issue with heads of state and international media. I will tell them that [Modi’s] is not an ordinary government but one that follows a dangerous ideology,” he stated.
The Pak PM said he would raise the Kashmir issue during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 27 and meet world leaders in New York.
“If some of the Muslim countries are not with us today due to economic or other reasons, they will be with us in the future,” PM Imran said, announcing further that every week, there will be a 30-minute event to express solidarity with Kashmiris.
Imran warned that if was the dispute moved towards war, then the world should remember that “both countries have nuclear weapons”.
“In a nuclear war, no one will win. It will not only wreak havoc in this region, but the entire world will face consequences. It is now up to the international community.
“Whether the world joins us or not, Pakistan will go to any lengths and its people will support [Kashmiris] till their last breath,” the premier concluded.