ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned the world to take notice of India’s ultranationalist ideology based on Nazism otherwise things will go far worse.
Addressing two-day Refugee Summit Islamabad on 40 years of hosting Afghan refugees in Pakistan, the prime minister warned that if this ideology is not checked, this will lead to destruction and the region will become a flashpoint.
The prime minister said the Indian Prime Minister’s statement that they can destroy Pakistan in eleven days is not a responsible statement by a prime minister of a nuclear state with a huge population.
He said Kashmiris have been persecuted for over 200 days due to the Hindutva ideology while living under a lockdown. He said under the same ideology, the BJP government passed two discriminatory nationalistic legislation, targeting 200 million Muslims in India.
He said if the international community does not take notice of this situation, it will create another refugee crisis for Pakistan as Muslims of India have been asked to move to Pakistan.
Referring to the Afghan peace process, the prime minister said Pakistan has extended the best ever support to the Afghan peace process. He said peace in Afghanistan is necessary for the development and prosperity of internally displaced people. He said development is only possible through trade and friendly relations, which will also help us to improve our relations with Central Asian states.
PM Imran Khan said Pakistan is celebrating forty years of hosting refugees and despite economic challenges, the host nation has kept wonderful relations with Afghan refugees. He said Islamophobia came after 9/11 because terrorism and Islam were equated, which led to the sufferings of refugees across the world. He said every society and religion has every type of person.
There are around 2.5 million documented and undocumented Afghan refugees living in Pakistan, making it the largest refugee population in the world after the Syrians in Turkey. Most of the refugees live in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and southwestern Balochistan provinces which border Afghanistan.
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