Imran Khan's nuclear threat is not his statesmanship but brinkmanship: India hits back at Pak PM
New York: Countering Imran Khan's speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), India said the Pakistan Prime Minister's threat of unleashing nuclear war reflects his brinkmanship and not statesmanship, media reports said.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement, "Prime Minister Khan’s threat of unleashing nuclear devastation qualifies as brinksmanship, not statesmanship. Even coming from the leader of a country that has monopolized the entire value chain of the industry of terrorism, Prime Minister Khan’s justification of terrorism was brazen and incendiary."
Attacking India and the Modi government on expected lines, Khan during his UNGA address here on Friday slammed the removal of special status of Jammu and Kashmir (read abrogation of Article 370) by New Delhi and continued lockdown in the region while warning of a bloodbath once the curfew is lifted in the troubled spot. The beleagured Pakistan Prime Minister fired on all cylinders to internationalise the Kashmir issue and even painted the spectre of a nuclear war.
"If a conventional war starts between the two countries, supposing a country seven times smaller is faced with a choice to surrender or fight to the end," he stated. "When a nuclear country fights till the end it has consequences far beyond the borders," he said.
"And then their agenda became obvious on Aug 5 when they went against all laws (and revoked occupied Kashmir's autonomy). They (India) got an extra 1,80,000 troops there, the total forces are now 9,00,000. They have put eight million people under curfew," Khan said in his 45-minute-long address.
"What kind of people bring in 9,00,000 troops for eight million people. These are human beings," Khan asked even as outside the UN building people from Balochistan, Sindh as well as the Muhajirs of Pakistan protested the continued repression and human rights violations by the Islamic nation.
On the consequences, the Pakistan Prime Minister asked, "Has he (Mr Modi) 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?" he further asked.
While India has rejected talks with Pakistan over Kashmir till it shuns the path of exporting terror to India, Imran Khan predicted that lot of violence would take place in Kashmir. "What is going to happen will be a blood bath," he stated.
"And so Kashmiris will be further radicalised. There will be another Pulwana. And they (India) will blame us," Khan claimed.
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