ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that our confrontation was not with the government of India but with the ideology of RSS which is unfortunately not for Pakistan or Kashmir but for India.
Addressing the Islamabad Conclave 2021, which was themed ‘A Peaceful and Prosperous South Asia’, the prime minister said that think tanks were very much needed in our country. “In the 1960’s we had a big standard planning commission, PM Imran Khan said, adding, “This led to the economic development of Pakistan, and people from countries like South Korea and Malaysia came to Pakistan.”
Addressing the conference on South Asia, the prime minister said that in the past, the international community saw Pakistan as a model but in the future, we abandoned our wisdom and understanding, he added. “We began to become an unrealistic kind of country that, instead of bringing our own unique ideas, kept on pursuing outside ideas and ideas,” he further added.
Addressing the conference, the prime minister said that our individual thinking is over. “This is what happens when there are no think tanks,” PM Imran Khan said, “In upcoming days, Pakistan needs think tanks to educate the media as well. The more research you do, the better your perspective will be. It is frustrating to watch media programs.”
During his address, the prime minister said that due to ignorance people talk nonsense in programs and are unaware of the national interest is. It is better for the world to say something about our reality than to define ourselves for what we are,” he said by adding that after 9/11, a barrage of accusations against Pakistan began. “Think tanks sitting abroad have no idea about our country,” he maintained.
The prime minister said that when the outside world called us Islamic bombs or extremists or terrorists, “I felt that there was no overall reaction from us,” he said by adding, “People, on the one hand, consider the West to be modern and on the other hand people reject everything that comes from the West. This is because we have never clarified our true ideology.”
He said that Kashmir was the biggest issue in South Asia. The prime minister said that when he tried to negotiate with India on Kashmir, Narendra Modi considered it our weakness. “Our conversation was not with the Indian Prime Minister, but with Hindutva and the RSS, not of Pakistan or Kashmir, but of the great misfortune of India because they want to suppress the minorities, which cover millions of people, which is not possible,” he said.
