- Predicts it would become the third World War if India moves ahead with coercive plans against Pakistan
SUKKUR, September 23: Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly, Khurshid Shah said, “People and Armed Forces of Pakistan are fully capable to defend homeland and repulse Indian attack, in case it ventures into doing so.”
Talking to media at his residence in Sukkur on Friday, Shah foreboded that it would become the third World War if India moves ahead with coercive plans against Pakistan.
He answered a question about Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s meeting in the war room in New Delhi by saying that not even ten powers similar to India in terms of military, economy and standing could pose a threat to Pakistan.
War would never be in benefit of either of the two, India or Pakistan, he stated. Shah called for different influential actors in the world to take notice of Kashmir dispute and pressure India to stop depriving the people of Kashmir of their right to determination.
While expanding on the issue, he welcomed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s address to the 71st General Assembly session of the United Nations Organisations earlier this week that highlighted Kashmir dispute and Indian brutality in the valley.
“The Prime Minister rose in the UN Kashmir dispute, the issue which he should have talked over with the political parties prior to his departure from Pakistan,” he said.
However, he complained that Indian interference on Pakistani soil, namely Balochistan and other parts should also have been mentioned besides Indian spies captured in Pakistan. The PPP leader called upon the international community to intervene to stem India’s sustained terrorism in the occupied Kashmir, adding, “We are facing terrorism for the sake of world peace.” The opposition leader also observed after a separate question that there was no need to extend Chief of the Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif’s tenure. He received immense reverence and praise through the course of his service as the army chief, he elaborated.-DNA
