- Says if this ideology is not checked, this will lead to destruction and the region will become a flashpoint
- Says if World does not take notice, it will create another refugee crisis for Pakistan as Muslims of India have been asked to move to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, February 17: Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that there is no safe heaves of militants in Pakistan and the political and military leadership is on same page about peace in Afghanistan.
Our whole county is on the same page when it comes to peace talks for Afghanistan. Right now, all of us want peace in Afghanistan, not just because we have 1.4 million registered refugees but because the Afghan people deserve peace, he said while speaking at a two-day Refugee Summit Islamabad on 40 years of hosting Afghan refugees in Pakistan.
The long suffering of Afghanistan should come to an end. We are praying and also making every effort we can so that the peace process in Afghanistan goes in the right direction,he said.
Referring to the Afghan peace process, the Prime Minister said Pakistan has extended the best ever support to the Afghan peace process. He said we need peace in Afghanistan for development and prosperity of internally displaced people. He said development is only possible through trade and friendly relations, which will also help us to improve our relations with Central Asian states.
The Prime Minister said Pakistan is celebrating 40 years of hosting refugees. He said despite economic challenges, the host Pakistan kept wonderful relations with Afghan refugees.
He said generosity has nothing to do with the bank balance. This hosting is linked with Madina Hijrat. He said learn and idealize Hijrat of our Prophet (PBUH) who believed in uniting human beings.
The Prime Minister said Islamophobia came after 9/11 because terrorism and Islam was equated, which led to sufferings of refugees across the world. He said every society and religion has every type of people.
On India, he warned the world to take notice of India’s ultranationalist ideology based on Nazism, otherwise things will go far worse. He said if this ideology is not checked, this will lead to destruction and the region will become a flashpoint.
The Prime Minister said the Indian Prime Minister’s statement that they can destroy Pakistan in eleven days is not a responsible statement by a prime minister of a nuclear state with a huge population.
He said because of the Hindutva ideology Kashmiris have been persecuted for over 200 days while living under a lockdown. He said under the same ideology, BJP government passed two discriminatory nationalistic legislations, targeting 200 million Muslims in India.
He said if the international community does not take notice of this situation, it will create another refugee crisis for Pakistan as Muslims of India have been asked to move to Pakistan. -NNI
