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PM rules out talks with India until Kashmir curfew is lifted

PM rules out talks with India until Kashmir curfew is lifted
September 25, 2019
NEW YORK (92 News) – Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Tuesday said it’s no use negotiating with India until it decides to lift curfew from the Occupied Kashmir (IoK). “We have no knowledge what will happen after curfew is lifted. But, we fear genocide to follow,” Imran Khan said while addressing a news conference along with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Pakistan's Permanent Representative to UN Dr Maleeha Lodhi in New York. The premier has urged the UN and the international community to push India into lifting the siege on Kashmir under which some eight million people are languishing for the past 51 days. He warned the situation could get worse if urgent efforts were not made to resolve the crisis. Expressing his disappointment over the international community’s attitude, the prime minister said there are eleven Security Council resolutions that recognize Kashmir as disputed region and it is not internal matter of India. Imran Khan ruled out aside possibility of any talks between Pakistan and India unless and until the latter lifted curfew in the IoK. He said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now boxed himself into a blind alley by his August 5 decision to revoke the special status of held Kashmir, with no way out, and a whole population turned against India. The prime minister said any conflict between nuclear-armed neighbors would not be confined to the South Asian region. “The whole world will be affected,” he added. He said India today is governed by a racist, Hindu supremacist group, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, responsible for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi and two thousand Muslims were butchered in Gujarat when Modi was the chief minister. Imran Khan said in India, minorities including Muslims and Christians were not safe and were treated as inferior citizens. He feared that change of demography by India in the occupied Kashmir and also massacre of Kashmiris by 900,000 Indian troops after lifting of curfew. To a question regarding possible mediation efforts by Pakistan in the gulf crisis, he said President Trump asked me if we could be helpful in deescalating the evolving situation in the region. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ZStBg_F4E