The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, addresses the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in a pre-recorded message, at the United Nations Headquarters on Friday, September 24, 2021.
Highlight
- Pakistan was carved out as a Muslim country after the partition of India by the British colonial rule in 1947.
- Pakistan often invites embarrassment in international forums for being a haven for terrorist organizations
- India says it is the responsibility of Pakistan to create an environment free from terror and enmity
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that he would like to have a televised debate with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to resolve the issues between the two neighboring countries.
“I would love to argue with Narendra Modi on TV,” Imran Khan told Russia Today in an interview. “It would be good for over a billion people in the Indian subcontinent if the differences could be resolved through debate.” Khan will be on a two-day visit to Russia on Wednesday, the first by a Pakistani prime minister in two decades.
Khan said after the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the party he founded in 1996, formed the government in 2018, he reached India to resolve differences.
Imran Khan said, “When my party came to power in 2018, I first approached India. I told them that our only issue is Kashmir. Let’s sit at the table and solve it. Let’s have a roadmap.”
“I am the one who knows India better than anyone because cricket is a passion in the subcontinent. And being the captain of the cricket team, I know India better than most people. I reached out immediately. But then I got to know about myself.” Turns out I’m afraid this is not the India I knew because this crazy ideology has taken over it.”
“There is negative nationalism and there is positive nationalism. You must differentiate between these two. I can inspire my people by saying that look you were a great nation, let’s come again now. But if I say you are a Were great nations, but because of this you couldn’t rise to the top of these other human communities…
After the partition of India by the British colonial rule in 1947, Pakistan was carved out as a Muslim country. While India was made up of all religions including Hindus, Muslims, Christians and others, Pakistan was made up mostly of Muslims and emerged as a conservative Islamist. state.
India and Pakistan share a border of about 3,30 km. Three Indian states – Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir share a border with Pakistan.
India has repeatedly stated that it wants normal relations with Pakistan and it is for that country to create a conducive environment by taking “credible, verifiable and irreversible” action against cross-border terrorism. But Pakistan has failed to crack down on terror groups and punish terrorists. It often invites embarrassment in international forums for being a haven for terrorist organizations.
Relations between the two countries broke down after the 2016 terror attack on the Pathankot Air Force base by Pakistan-based terror groups. Subsequent attacks on an Indian Army camp in Uri further soured the relationship. Since then, India has not been holding bilateral talks with Pakistan, saying that talks and terror cannot go hand in hand.
Ties further soured after India’s warplanes destroyed a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist training camp deep inside Pakistan in response to the February 26, 2019 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were martyred Were. Relations soured after India announced the withdrawal of special powers to Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019 and bifurcation of the state into two union territories. Since then, Pakistan has been unsuccessfully trying to garner international support against India on the Kashmir issue.
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