Article 370 revocation: Imran Khan warns of another Pulwama

Islamabad Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has reacted sharply to the Mondays developments in Jammu and Kashmir insisting that with an approach like this incidents like Pulwama are bound to happen again the Dawn reported I can already predict this will happen They will attempt to place the blame on us again They may strike us again and we will strike back Khan told his countrys Parliament on TuesdayWhat will happen then They will attack us and we will respond and the war can go both ways But if we fight a war till we shed the last drop of our blood who will win that war No one will win it and it will have grievous consequences for the entire world This is not nuclear blackmail he addedAddressing a joint session of the National Assembly on Tuesday to discuss the countrys future course of action in the wake of Indias decision to revoke Article 370 of its Constitution stripping Jammu and Kashmir of its special status Khan said that his governments priority was to improve relations with all of Pakistans neighbours because it was vital to improve the countrys economic situationWhen we took up the government our main priority was to address poverty in our country We reached out to all our neighbours because without having a semblance of normalcy in ties we cannot attain stability and alleviate poverty All my trips to neighbouring countries were meant for this purpose I visited Afghanistan and asked them that we work to address our past differences I talked to India telling them if you take one step towards us we will come two step towards you I went to Iran with similar aims and I visited AmericaWhen I first reached out to India they expressed concerns that there were militant outfits operating from Pakistan I told Narendra Modi that after the grave and painful tragedy of the Army Public School massacre all our political parties had resolved to never let the territory of Pakistan be used for terrorist activities But I got the feeling that the Indian side was not serious about talks When we went to Bishkek my suspicions regarding their unwillingness to speak was strengthenedAccording to the newspaper the Pakistan Premier said I soon realised that India was not interested in talking to us They took our overtures for peace as weakness so we stopped extending offers to hold talksThen Pulwama happened Thank God our Air Force responded in the way it did We shot down their pilot but returned him immediately to send the message that we did not want war We resolved that we would not move forward on talks over Kashmir till after the Indian elections The elections happened What happened yesterday has only confirmed my suspicion about Indias unwillingness to talk This is not a decision they the BJP have taken out of the blue It was part of their election manifesto all along It is in fact ingrained in their ideology that puts Hindus above all other religions and seeks to establish a state that represses all other religious groupsWhat they did in Kashmir is in accordance with their ideology They have a racist ideology he declared They have violated their own countrys and international laws to uphold their ideology They will now crack down even harder on the Kashmiri people They will try to suppress the Kashmiri resistance with brute force I fear that they may initiate ethnic cleansing in Kashmir to wipe out the local populationWith an approach of this nature incidents like Pulwama are bound to happen again I can already predict this will happen They will attempt to place the blame on us again They may strike us again and we will strike back What will happen then They will attack us and we will respond and the war can go both ways But if we fight a war till we shed the last drop of our blood who will win that war No one will win it and it will have grievous consequences for the entire world This is not nuclear blackmailWe want global leadership to take note My party and I are taking the responsibility to approach the leaders of the world and apprise them of what is happening in Kashmir I know the Western world and I feel like they are not sufficiently aware of what is happening in Kashmir I will inform them that what the Indian government is doing in Kashmir and what it is doing to Muslims and minorities in India goes against everything the Western world believes in he saidThe joint session of upper and lower houses was summoned by President Arif Alvi to decide Pakistans future course of action in the wake of Indias decision to strip Jammu and Kashmir of its special status under Article 370 the paper reportedBut the session was disrupted soon after due to protest from opposition lawmakers who pointed out that the resolution moved by Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Azam Khan Swati condemning Indias illegal actions in occupied Kashmir did not specifically mention Article 370 of the Indian constitutionCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android 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