Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday addressed a special session of the PoK legislative assembly, marking the first anniversary of India’s decision to scrap the special status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019. In his address, he said that Pakistan will continue to reiterate the Kashmir issue at Global level.
Mr Khan said that he would be the ambassador of Kashmir at world stage and raise his voice for Kashmir. He also added that it was due to Pakistan government’s continuous efforts that the Kashmir issue was recognized at international forums and now, “the world was taking notice of it.”
The Pak PM said that he has personally talked world leaders, inclduing US President Donald Trump, UK PM Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron, about hapless Kashmiris.
In his brief address, Mr. Khan compared the ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) to Nazism. “Now the world is looking at Kashmir and also Pakistan. We will internationalise the issue of Kashmir. The world must understand how dangerous RSS ideology is…the kind of statements coming out regarding Kashmiri women is the result of sick-minded ideology,” he said.
“The genie of RSS will not go back in the bottle. After Muslims, it will target Sikhs, Dalits, Christians.”
“This will not stop at Kashmir. It will come towards Pakistan. We have information — we have had two NSC meetings and the Pakistan Army knows this — that they [India] have planned to take action in AJK like they did in Balakot after Pulwama. According to our information, this time it will be much worse and dangerous,” Mr Khan said.
He also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has betrayed Kashmiris by revoking article 370 and warned him of its consequences. “We will tell the world that they are responsible for all the atrocities that are being committed in Kashmir,” the Pak PM added.
He also defended the new map of Pakistan saying it was essential to respond to India’s decision of including Kashmir and Gilgit-balistan as part of the country. Meanwhile, Indian authorities on Tuesday slammed the new map of Pakistan which claimed J&K and parts of Gujarat as its territories.
