PM says Pakistan will fight till the end if India imposes war, asks UN to ‘act before it’s too late’ | fears bloodbath in IOK once curfew lifted | Regrets Islamophobia in West, says world leaders lack seriousness on addressing climate change challenges
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NEW YORK
Prime Minister Imran Khan warned the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) of far reaching consequences in case of an armed conflict between India and Pakistan, as he warned India of fighting till the end if a war is imposed on Pakistan.
“When a war starts between nuclear-armed countries, there will be consequences…it’s not a threat but a fair worry,” he said in his maiden address at UNGA on Friday.
He asked the United Nations to act before it’s too late.
“This is not a time to appease but a time to action… India must lift curfew, free all political prisoners, and the world community must give Kashmiris righto self-determination,” the premier said.
He said there will be bloodbath once curfew is lifted in the occupied valley.
“There are 900,000 troops there, they haven’t come to, as Narendra Modi says — for the prosperity of Kashmir… These 900,000 troops, what are they going to do? When they come out? There will be a bloodbath,” he said.
Under the guise of ‘Islamic terrorism’ India is inflicting more cruelty on the people of Kashmir, said PM Imran.
“There is no other narrative left for India,” said the PM, adding that there is another chance of a Pulwama-like incident to blame and ‘bomb’ Pakistan.
“India must lift this inhuman curfew,” said PM Imran, further saying that ‘picked-up persons’ from the valley should be released by India.
Due to these issues, eight million people under lockdown in the valley are likely to get radicalised, he said.
“Now i must explain what RSS is. Modi is a life member (of RSS).
“It is an organisation inspired by Hitler and Mussolini. They believe in racial purity and superiority. They believe they are an Aryan race.
“They believe in ethnic cleansing of Muslims. They believe a golden age of Hindu rule was stopped by Muslims and then the British occupation.
“What kind of people bring in 900,000 troops for eight million people. These are human beings,” said Prime Minister Imran to applause from the audience.
“What comes with Aryan superiority is arrogance and it makes people commit mistakes and do stupid cruel things like what Modi has done.
“It is arrogance that has blinded Modi. Has he thought about what will happen after the curfew in Kashmir is lifted?
“What will he do? Does he think the people of Kashmir will quietly accept the status quo?”
“When we came into power, we swore that we would try to bring peace. We went to fight the war on terror and we faced losses of (thousands of people).
“I opposed the war because in the 1980s we joined the struggle against the Soviets funded by western countries.
“The mujahideen were trained by the Pakistan Army and they waged the freedom struggle. The soviets called them terrorists and we called them freedom fighters.
“In 1989 soviets retreated; the Americans packed up and left. Here we had indoctrinated them in jihad against foreign occupation and now that th US had taken over, we were supposed to tell them it’s no longer jihad.
“And so the US turned against us and it was a nightmare.
“Taliban were in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda was there; what did Pakistan have to do with it?
“When we came to power we decided we would dismantle what was left. I know India keeps alleging that these groups are there.
“I welcome UN observers, see for yourself.
“We now have a relationship with Afghanistan, Russia and then we wanted to mend fences with India.
“I have friends in India and I love going to India. So when my party came to power, we reached out to India and (said) let’s resolve differences through trade.
“Modi said there were terrorist attacks from Pakistan. We said well we have attacks in Balochistan from your end.
“Unfortunately we didn’t make any head way. Our foreign minister was at the UNGA but they cancelled the meeting.
“Meanwhile a 20-year-old Kashmiri boy blew himself up at the Indian convoy. And India blamed us.
“We told him (Modi) if you have an iota of proof send it. They bombed us (instead), and we retaliated.
“Modi’s entire campaign hinged on how he had killed ten trees of ours. He used words like ‘this is just a trailer and the movie has yet to begun.’
Besides Kashmir, PM Imran also spoke at length on climate change, Islamophobia and corruption.
