MUZAFFARABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan slammed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday, saying that he is ‘trapped’ and that Kashmiris will be free soon from India’s reign of terror.
“It looks as if all of you, from the inside, are a bit feeling like you have lost,” he told parliamentarians at the Azad Kashmir assembly after they made speeches before the prime minister. “I, on the other hand, believe that Kashmiris are going through an era [of suffering] which, God willing, will end in victory for them,” he added.
PM Imran said that Modi had made a huge mistake on August 5 last year. He said that the Indian prime minister was afraid of revoking Article 370 of the Indian constitution earlier but after winning the elections by appeasing his extremist Hindutva base, Modi took the disastrous step.
“His assumed that Pakistan would stay silent as we were trying for friendship [with India],” he said. “When India was using pellet guns in Kashmir, before our government, no one was talking about it. Neither was Pakistan doing anything and neither did the UN,” he added, stating that New Delhi thought Islamabad would remain silent again.
PM Imran said that the main reason behind India’s August 5 move was pride. He said that Modi thought the world would back India and stay silent as he assumed that the west wanted to use India as a counterforce to China.