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Imran Khan doesn’t rule out potential Pakistan-India war going nuclear
[ALMASDARNEWS] Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... has warned of "consequences" if his nuclear-armed country were to end up losing a conventional war to its similarly nuclear-armed neighbour India. Pakistain’s prime minister discussed his government’s foreign and domestic policies in an interview with Al Jazeera on 14 September. When asked if Pakistain would hit India with nuclear weapons in case of a large-scale conflict, Khan first ruled out his country initiating the attack. "Pakistain would never start a war, and I am clear: I am a pacifist. I am anti-war," he said. They have a rather loose definition of "never starting a war," however. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Khan added that when two nuclear-armed states "fight a conventional war, there is every possibility that it is going to end up in a nuclear war." "If say Pakistain, God forbid, we are fighting a conventional war, we are losing, and if a country is stuck between the choice: either you surrender or you fight ’til death for your freedom ‐ I know Paks will fight to death for their freedom," said Pakistain’s PM. Khan has repeatedly warned in recent weeks that foreign powers, along with the UN, need to intervene in the standoff between India and Pakistain over disputed Kashmir  ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... "So that’s why we have approached the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , we are approaching every international forum, that they must act right now because this is a potential disaster that would go way beyond the Indian subcontinent," said Khan. Earlier in September, appearing at the International Sikh Convention in the eastern Pak city of Lahore, Khan vowed not to use nuclear weapons first against India. His spokesperson subsequently insisted the words were "taken out of context," and there is "no change" in Pakistain’s nuclear stance which reportedly does not rule out a first strike against overwhelming conventional force. Related: Imran Khan: 2019-09-14 At Muzaffarabad rally, PM Imran calls out 'coward' Modi for oppressing occupied Kashmir residents Imran Khan: 2019-09-14 Kashmir requires immediate intervention of UN, world powers: PM Imran Imran Khan: 2019-09-13 Bilawal accuses centre of trying to 'occupy Karachi' Related: Nuclear weapons: 2019-09-14 U.S. imposes sanctions on North Korean hacking groups blamed for global attacks Nuclear weapons: 2019-09-13 'You will never break our will': Palestinians react to Netanyahu's annexation pledge Nuclear weapons: 2019-09-10 Netanyahu reveals new ‘nuclear weapons development site’ in Iran Posted by: Fred 2019-09-16 |
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