Highlights
- Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said his country would neither use nuclear weapons first nor initiate any military action against India in the wake of New Delhi’s scrapping of special status to J&K
- Khan however, said that he will continue to raise his voice for the residents of J&K
- He reiterated that RSS was following a “totalitarian and racist ideology”
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said his country would neither use nuclear weapons first nor initiate any military action against India in the wake of New Delhi’s scrapping of special status to Jammu & Kashmir.
“We both are nuclear-armed countries. If these tensions increase, the world could be in danger,” Khan said while addressing the first International Sikh convention, arranged at Governor House in Lahore. “There will be no first from our side ever,” he added.
Denouncing the idea of war, Khan said: “I do not believe that war can solve any problem. Whoever thinks that it can is not sensible. He has not read world history. If you solve one problem by waging war, you create four more.” “Everyone who has tried to solve problems by waging war has lost, even in victory. It takes years for a country to recover from the losses inflicted by war,” he added.
Khan, however, said that he will continue to raise his voice for the residents of J&K. “No one who has any humanity left (in them) can tolerate the current situation in Kashmir. We can never accept that you place eight million people under lockdown for 27 days and cut off all communication. I would have raised my voice even if they (Kashmiris) were non-Muslims,” he told the members of the Sikh community.
Khan reiterated that Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was following a “totalitarian and racist ideology” that was against the teachings of any religion. “The direction in which RSS is taking India has no place for any minority. Whatever is happening with Muslims right now in India will not stop here. If they (the BJP government) are not stopped, they will come after the Dalits; they will one day come after the Sikhs,” he said.
