Thu 19 September 2019:
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned citizens against joining the fight in Kashmir, saying the Indian authorities were waiting for “any excuse” to crack down on the residents in the Himalayan territory.
“If someone from Pakistan goes to India and he thinks he will fight in Kashmir … the first person he will be inflicting cruelty on is the Kashmiris. He will have acted as an enemy of the Kashmiris,” Khan said during a speech in Torkham on the border with Afghanistan on Wednesday.
Tensions have soared between the two nuclear-armed nations over Kashmir, parts of which is administered by both India and Pakistan, since New Delhi revoked the autonomy of the territory it controls on August 5.
“They have 900,000 troops there, they just need an excuse to claim that Kashmiris are with them and that terrorists are coming from Pakistan. We all know that everyone in Kashmir, from children to the elderly, are all against India … but they will get an excuse,” said Khan.
“Second, they will point the finger and tell the whole world that the real problem is of Pakistan and terrorism … It will provide them with an excuse for torture and barbarism.”
Khan has repeatedly likened Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Hitler’s Nazis, and called for international intervention to resolve the Kashmir dispute.
“Their policy towards Pakistan is full of hate, it is the policy of the RSS, which hates Muslims. They don’t consider Muslims equal human beings in India,” Khan said on Wednesday, referring to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the far-right Hindu supremacist group that mentors the BJP.
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