कश्मीरियों के क़त्ले आम और भारत से युद्ध पर इमरान ख़ान का अल-जज़ीरा को दिया पूरा इंटरव्यू देखें

दो परमाणु शक्तियां लड़ेंगी तो अंजाम भयानक होगा

पाकिस्तान के प्रधानमंत्री इमरान ख़ान ने एक बार फिर विश्व समुदाय को चेतावनी दी है कि नई दिल्ली द्वारा की जा रही भड़काऊ कार्यवाहियों के कारण पाकिस्तान और भारत युद्ध के कगार पर हैं। उन्होंने कहा कि अगर दो परमाणु शक्तियां आपस में लडेंगी तो उसका अंजाम बहुत भयानक होगा।

प्राप्त रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक़, पाकिस्तान के प्रधानमंत्री इमरान ख़ान ने एक विदेशी समाचार एजेंसी को दिए अपने इंटरव्यू में कहा है कि पाकिस्तान ने कश्मीर का मामला संयुक्त राष्ट्र संघ में उठा दिया है। उन्होंने कहा कि पाकिस्तान ऐसा राष्ट्र है जो अपने अस्तित्व के लिए अंतिम सांस तक लड़ेगा। इमरान ख़ान का कहना था कि दो परमाणु शक्तियां इस समय युद्ध की कगार पर हैं अगर यह ताक़तें आपस में लडेंगी तो उसका अंजाम बहुत भयानक होगा। उन्होंने कहा कि विश्व समुदाय परमाणु युद्ध से बचने के लिए अपनी भूमिका निभाए। इमरान ख़ान का यह भी कहना था कि कोई भी संवेदनशील व्यक्ति परमाणु युद्ध की बात नहीं कर सकता।

इमरान ख़ान ने भारत पाकिस्तान के बीच तनाव को अमेरिका और रूस के बीच वर्ष 1962 के क्योबन मिसाइल संकट से तुलना करते हुए कहा कि पाकिस्तान और भारत के बीच स्थिति बहुत ही तनावपूर्ण है और अगर दोनों देशों के बीच युद्ध हुया तो इसका असर भारतयी उपमहाद्वीप के बाहर भी देखने को मिलेगा।

Al Jazeera English

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It has been a year since the former cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan became Pakistan’s Prime Minister.
Khan’s campaign slogan was “Naya Pakistan” or “New Pakistan”, a reflection of his promises to turn the country’s economy around and end corruption.

But the first year of his premiership has not gone as smoothly as he may have hoped or even expected, especially in terms of the economy. The Pakistani rupee has lost 35 percent of its value during his time in office.

Khan’s critics call him the prime minister of the U-turns, as he has been forced to go back on many of his campaign pledges in an attempt to rescue the situation.

“I’m glad they say I’m a prime minister of U-turns. Only an idiot doesn’t do any u-turns,” Khan tells Al Jazeera. “Only a moron, when he’s on a course and he comes across a brick wall, only that stupid idiot keeps banging his head against a brick wall. An intelligent person immediately revises his strategy and goes around it.”

But have any of these ‘U-turns’ had a positive impact on the country?

In terms of foreign affairs, Pakistan is closer than ever to its neighbour, China. But relations with its other neighbour, India, are at a new low.

Asked whether these two nuclear countries are at risk of another major conflict, or even war, Khan tells Al Jazeera he “absolutely” believes war with India could be a possibility.

“Eight million Muslims in Kashmir are under siege for almost now six weeks. And why this can become a flashpoint between India and Pakistan is because what we already know India is trying to do is divert attention from their illegal annexation and their impending genocide on Kashmir,” he says. “They are taking the attention away by blaming Pakistan for terrorism.”

“Pakistan would never start a war, and I am clear: I am a pacifist, I am anti-war, I believe that wars do not solve any problems,” he clarifies.

But, he adds: “When two nuclear armed countries fight, if they fight a conventional war, there is every possibility that it is going to end up into nuclear war. The unthinkable.”

“If say Pakistan, 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 Pakistanis will fight to death for their freedom. So when a nuclear armed country fights to the end, to the death, it has consequences.”

“So that’s why we have approached the United Nations, 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.”

Until recently, Pakistan had made attempts to open dialogue with India “to live as civilised neighbours, to resolve our difference [over Kashmir] … through a political settlement”, but according to Khan, this is no longer the case.

“We discovered that while we were trying to have dialogue, they were trying to push us in the black list in FATF … If Pakistan is pushed into the black list of FATF that means there will be sanctions on Pakistan. So they were trying to bankrupt us economically, so that’s when we pulled back. And that’s when we realised that this government is on an agenda. The agenda is to push Pakistan to disaster,” says Khan.

“There is no question of talking to the Indian government right now after they revoked this article 370 of their own constitution and they annexed Kashmir illegally against the UN security council resolution which had guaranteed the people that they would be able to hold a referendum, a plebiscite, to decide their destiny. So they have unilaterally not only broken international laws, but also their own constitution.”

Asked about his government’s achievements after the first year in office, Khan says: “We are already in a new Pakistan … This government has done things which no government has done before. But, as they say, Rome was not built in a day. When you start making these massive changes, reforms, it takes time. The time to judge a government is five years … The first year was the most difficult period, but from now onwards people will start seeing the difference … the direction of the country is now right.”