September 27, 2019
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan admonishes UN
By Syed Rifaquat Ali
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan asked the United Nations to immediately intervene in Kashmir before any catastrophe takes place between two nuclear- armed countries: India and Pakistan.
Khan was most vociferous about the human rights violation in Kashmir while speaking at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York.
He said "There will be a bloodbath when the curfew is lifted and people come out to face the seven Lakh troops. What do you think they will do after being boxed in like animals?"
But the Indian prime minister Narender Modi has turned a blind eye to such counseling and the lockdown in Kashmir continues with no sign of any respite. Modi always talks of peace and brotherhood but only in words.
He is worst than a dictator as his poker face suggests. The atrocities in Kashmir today are beyond comprehension: human rights abuses in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir are an ongoing issue.
The abuses range from man killings, enforced disappearances, torture, rape and sexual abuse to political repression and suppression of freedom of speech.
The Indian Army, Central Reserve Police Force, Border Security Force and various separatist militant groups have been accused and held accountable for committing severe human rights abuses against Kashmiri civilians.
Imran Khan has, repeatedly said that if war is thrust on Pakistan, he will obviously retaliate, and retaliate with full might. But this, it seems, has no bearing on Modi who is hell bent to destroy Kashmir and its cultural heritage.
The megalomaniac Indian prime minister has created so much tension in the sub-continent that people do not speak good about his governance. Modi, who married Jashodaben in 1968, is separated from his wife.
And when he could not keep his house intact, how can he bind the people of India following different faiths?
Modi comes from Gujarat and believes in violence, contrary to Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence. Gandhi was so concerned about human rights that he wrote to Adolf Hitler on July 23,1939, "Friends have been urging me to write to you for the sake of humanity.
But I have resisted their request, because of the feeling that any letter from me would be an impertinence. Something tells me that I must not calculate and that I must make my appeal for whatever it may be worth.
It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state. Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be?
Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success? Anyway I anticipate your forgiveness, if I have erred in writing to you."
One does not understand the mind of Modi he is up to what?
He wants to take a leaf out of Hitler's conception or misconception of conquering the world, or Mahatma Gandhi who won the hearts and minds of people all over the world for his philosophy of non-violence?
Modi, the choice is yours, the world is watching you.
Syed Rifaquat Ali is Sydney-based journalist
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