NewsApril 11, 2019
Kashmir issue cannot keep on boiling: PM
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan while stressing for resolving the longstanding Kashmir dispute through dialogue on Wednesday said the settlement of this issue would have tremendous benefits of peace in the Sub-Continent.“There is only one difference (between Pakistan and India) which is Kashmir. It has to be settled. The Kashmir issue cannot keep on boiling like it is,” he said in an interview with BBC.“Because anything happening in Kashmir (Indian Held Kashmir) through a reaction to the oppression that is taking place in Kashmir, it would be palmed off on Pakistan, we would
be blamed and tensions would rise as they have risen in the past,” the prime minister told BBC, which also posted a clip of the interview on its website.
“If we (Pakistan and India) settle Kashmir, benefits of peace are tremendous in the Sub-Continent.” When asked what message he would like to send to the government and people of India, the prime minister said, “The number one task of the two governments should be how are we going to reduce poverty, and the way we reduce poverty is by settling our differences through dialogue.”
Meanwhile, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it was because of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel that Junagadh and Hyderabad are parts of India, while Kashmir issue handled by first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is still unsolved.
Modi said that he has brought the Congress leaders closer to jails in last five years of the BJP rule at the Centre and will put them behind bars in the next five years if he returns to power. “In last five years, I have got very close to jailing them (Congress leaders), in next five years they will be in (the jail),” he said while addressing an election rally in Gujarat’s Junagadh.
Modi played ‘Son’s of Soil’, ‘Sardar’ and 'Security' cards to woo voters and urged them to again give the BJP all the 26 seats in Gujarat, just like 2014, during the Lok Sabha elections.
Addressing the rally, Modi lashed out at the Congress manifesto for proposing amendments into the Armed Forces Special Provisions Act (AFSPA) and Sedition Act and asked in whose interest it was doing so.
He also alleged that Congress is a family party, which has always done injustice to Gujaratis. “Congress had done injustice to Sardar Patel (by denying him the post of prime minister), then it was the turn of Morarji Desai. Congress could not digest that a Gujarati became prime minister and conspired to dethrone him in two years. Now they cannot tolerate that a chaiwala (from Gujarat) has become prime minister. ‘Modi Hatao’ is their singular motive. While I am trying to remove corruption and make the country stronger," he claimed.
He urged first time voters to bring back the party which is committed to the security of the country.
Courtesy www.thenews.com.pk
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