- Says for the first time in history, about 600 EU parliamentarians supported the resolution over Kashmir
MUZAFFARABAD, Feb-ruary 5: Prime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday said that he has no doubt that the move of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the annexation of Kashmir will ultimately lead to Kashmir’s freedom.
In a brief address at a special session of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly in Muzaffarabad to mark the Kashmir Solidarity Day, PM Khan explained that if Modi had not taken this step, the Kashmir cause wouldn’t have gotten the world’s attention.
“I promised you that I will become the voice of Kashmir. I have tried my best and picked up the issues on every international fourm, made countless calls. I knew the West won’t listen if we say it once because they have commercial interests [in India]. But it was impossible that the West won’t pay attention if even one newspaper connected Modi to the Nazi ideology,” he explained.
“The jinni of racism and nationalism when came out of bottle it always wrecked destruction and spilled bloodshed,” he said, and referred to the genocide in Rwanda, of Jews in Germany and the Muslims in Myanmar. In Karachi, he lamented, ethnic differences were created in the past, leading to killing of hundreds of people.
The prime minister said the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an extremist organization in India, had a philosophy directly inspired from Hitler’s Nazi as its founding father R S Golwalkar had great admiration for that philosophy.
The organization, he said, had documented planning over ethnic cleansing of the Muslims in India. Even other minorities were not spared as evident from enactment of two most controversial citizenship pieces of legislation, he added. The prime minister said the world was now acknowledging the destruction towards India was heading. He said Modi’s steps had provided an opportunity to them to highlight the IOJ&K more fervently at the global fora.
The world community, which was not realizing the scale of worst inhuman atrocities being perpetrated against the innocent Kashmiris, had now started criticizing India and expressing concerns over the human rights violations and lockdown of 8 million Kashmiris, he added.
AJK president and prime minister were also present during the proceedings. Imran Khan said the Bharatiya Janata Party’s election campaigns were based upon Pakistan bashing in which sentiments for Hindutva were whipped.
But the world had understood the perilous situation as the Indian intellectuals were also raising their voices as they had also grasped the situation in India. The prime minister maintained that nations had to face ups and downs as the situations tested their resolve and sharpen their ability to tackle the challenges.
Those nations rose to prominence which had overcome the difficult times. He said for the first time, he had highlighted the RSS philosophy in a speech at the National Assembly.
Reaffirming his position as an ambassador for Kashmir, he said he had made every effort to highlight the issue at all fora, including the UN General Assembly, Geneva conference and during his interaction with US President Donald Trump and other heads of state.
The prime minister said it was their responsibility to keep on apprising and reminding the world with more vigour of the grim situation in the IOJ&K, which had been turned into an open prison.
The prime minister said the European countries now started realizing the alarming situation in India when they had contemplated it with the horrifying outcome of Nazi’s philosophy there.
For the first time in history, about 600 EU parliamentarians supported the resolution over Kashmir, besides US and UK parliamentarians had also raised their voices, he observed.
Almost all the leading channels, newspapers and magazines in the West, he said, were expressing concerns over the grave threat which India had not only posed to the Kashmiris but to herself with such extremist policies.
Under a systematic mechanism, minorities in India were targeted, he said, adding the citizenship laws would directly affect 500 million people in India, including about 200 million Muslims.
The prime minister trashed Modi’s statement over war with Pakistan, saying that it was the result of his desperation from the internal turmoil.
The prime minister also maintained that the word ‘Islamic terrorism’ was used as propaganda and regretted that the Muslim leaders had never fully explained it.
There was no relation between the religion and terrorism, he said and reminded the AJK legislators to be careful about India’s game plan. He also announced formation of a committee in consultation with the AJK government to further highlight the issue.-Agencies
