{"id":228843,"date":"2019-08-30T21:12:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T01:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=228843"},"modified":"2019-08-30T21:12:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T01:12:12","slug":"prime-minister-says-pakistan-will-respond-if-india-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/30\/prime-minister-says-pakistan-will-respond-if-india-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime minister says Pakistan will respond if India attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a speech at a rally in Islamabad, Imran Khan said his country will give a \u201cbefitting response\u201d to the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi if it attacked. (File Photo<\/a>: Imran Khan (official)\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ISLAMABAD \u2014 Pakistan’s prime minister said Friday h he had warned the international community that India could launch an attack on Pakistani-held Kashmir in an effort to divert the attention from human rights abuses in its portion of the disputed Himalayan region.<\/p>\n

In a speech at a rally in Islamabad, Imran Khan said his country will give a \u201cbefitting response\u201d to the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi if it attacked.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery brick will be countered with a stone,\u201d he said. \u201cOur armed forces are ready\u201d to respond to any such attack, he said.<\/p>\n

Khan said any conflict between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India will not be confined to the South Asian region. \u201cThe whole world will be affected\u201d because of it, he said, adding that he will raise the issue when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly next month.<\/p>\n

Khan said that people in Indian-administered Kashmir were living under curfew for almost four weeks since New Delhi downgraded Kashmir’s autonomy on Aug. 5 and imposed a security clampdown to prevent any violence.<\/p>\n

Khan assured his government’s full support to Kashmiri people and said he hoped that Indian-administered Kashmir will soon get independence.<\/p>\n

He described Modi as a \u201cfascist\u201d and equated him with Adolf Hitler, saying he feared a \u201cgenocide of Muslims in Kashmir.\u201d He said Modi had played his \u201clast card\u201d by downgrading the special status of Kashmir.<\/p>\n

India on Thursday said it has information that Pakistan is trying to infiltrate \u201cterrorists\u201d into the country. Pakistan’s army spokesman Maj. Gen. Ghafoor rejected the Indian claims, saying Pakistan was a responsible state and \u201cwe would be insane to allow infiltration\u201d across the Line of Control.<\/p>\n

Friday’s rallies were held in almost all cities, towns and villages in Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir to express solidarity with Kashmiris in the Indian-held portion.<\/p>\n

The rallies came a day after Pakistan’s military announced that it successfully test-fired a missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads up to 290 kilometres (about 180 miles). The two neighbours have fought two of their three wars over the Himalayan region since they gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947.<\/p>\n

They went close to the war again in February, when a suicide bombing in Indian-administered Kashmir killed 40 paramilitary soldiers. India responded by bombing an alleged militant training camp in Pakistan. Pakistan then claimed it shot down two Indian air force planes and captured an Indian pilot who was later released.<\/p>\n

India often accuses Pakistan of training and arming insurgent groups that have been fighting since 1989 for Kashmir’s independence from India or its merger with Pakistan, a charge Islamabad denies.<\/p>\n

Pakistan says it only provides moral and diplomatic support to these groups.<\/p>\n

Most Kashmiris support the rebels’ demand that the territory be united either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country, while also participating in civilian street protests against Indian control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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