India made a wrong decision based on miscalculations; Imran Khan

On Wednesday, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said that scrapping the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was a blunder which Narendra Modi made due to four key miscalculations.

Khan was addressing a special session of the legislative assembly of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in Muzaffarabad. It was also the first anniversary of India’s decisionof scrapping the special status of the state. Khan in the assembly said that by the action, Modi wanted to expand his Hindu vote bank. He further added that Modi’s second assumption was that the move would be silently observed by Pakistan “because we were trying to become friends with them”. 

The third assumption was that the world will observe the entire scene silently because as per India, the other countries want to use India against their fight with China. Finally the fourth miscalculation was that India thought it will be easy to crush the Kashmiris with their heavy military troops, posted in the valley. India wanted to change the demography of the region. Khan said that all the assumptions of India have proved wrong.

The comment were made one day after a map was issued in Islamabad which showed the Indian union territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh and parts of Gujarat state as Pakistani territories.

The map was immediately dismissed by the India governments an “exercise in political absurdity” with o legal support.

Khan however said that Pakistan has replied to India’s last year’s action strongly. “The UN discussed the Kashmir issue thrice during the last year for the first time since 1965. It also published two reports on human rights abuses in...Kashmir,” he said. He said he personally spoke to world leaders about the issue. “I explained to [US President Donald] Trump twice how Kashmir was a flashpoint. I talked to [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel, [UK Prime Minister] Boris Johnson, [French President Emmanuel] Macron, explained to them, made them understand,” he said.

“Today, Modi is exposed in front of the world, the biggest result of which is that people are [now] looking towards [the situation in] Kashmir. India is now in a blind alley and there’s no way out from this situation,” he said.

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