PM tells UN India is planning misadventure

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UNITED NATIONS: Prime Minister Imran Khan used his address to the UN General Assembly on Friday to warn the international community that India was planning another “ill-conceived misadventure” during a “nuclearised environment,” but Pakistan was able to “fight for its freedom to the end”.

The prime minister also urged the UN Security Council to play its role in preventing this dangerous conflict, which could jeopardise the whole region.

“In order to divert attention from its illegal actions and atrocities in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir, India is playing a dangerous game of upping the military ante against Pakistan during a nuclearised strategic environment,” he said.

Mr Khan informed the planet body that despite constant Indian provocations and ceasefire violations along the road of Control (LoC) and therefore the Working Boundary targeting innocent civilians, Pakistan had exercised maximum restraint. “We have consistently sensitised the planet community a few ‘false flag’ operation and another ill-conceived misadventure by India,” he added.

The prime minister said that while his parents were born within the colonial India, his was the primary generation that grew up in an independent Pakistan. “I want to form it clear that any attempt by the fascist totalitarian RSS-led Indian government to aggress against Pakistan are going to be met by a nation which will fight for its freedom to the top ,” he declared.

“The Security Council must prevent a disastrous conflict and secure the implementation of its own resolutions [on Kashmir] because it did within the case of East Timor ,” he said.

The warning follows heightened tensions between the 2 South Asian neighbours that began last year when India bombed an abandoned school in Balakot. India followed up the bombing with more aggressions that ended only Pakistan brought down an Indian aircraft and arrested its pilot, commanding officer Abhinandan Varthaman.

Pakistan returned the pilot on March 1, 2019 as a gesture of peace, but on Aug 5 that year India illegally annexed held Kashmir and since then it's been constantly firing across the LoC.

Referring to these incidents, Prime Minister Khan told the 75th UNGA that there would be no durable peace and stability in South Asia until the Jammu and Kashmir dispute was resolved on the idea of international legitimacy.

“Kashmir has been rightly described as a ‘nuclear flash point’,” he said, noting that the UN Security Council has considered things in Jammu and Kashmir 3 times within the past year.