Pakistan PM Imran Khan at the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva — and said India’s Citizenship Amendment Act could not only lead to a refugee crisis in south Asia but trigger a conflict between nuclear armed nations.
India was quick to respond with the foreign ministry saying the Pakistani PM had once again peddled familiar falsehoods at a multilateral platform to advance his narrow political agenda by making “gratuitous and unwarranted’’ remarks on matters entirely internal to India.
“It should now be clear to the entire world that this is an established pattern of his habitual and compulsive abuse of global forums,” MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said. “It has been the unfortunate experience of most of Pakistan’s neighbours that actions by that country have had adverse consequences next door,” he added. “Over the past 72 years, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has systematically persecuted all of its minorities, forcing most of them to flee to India.
Moreover, Khan wishes the world forgets what his army did in 1971 to the people of erstwhile East Pakistan,” Kumar said as he called upon Pakistan to protect and promote the rights of its own minorities and “co-religionists”. The Pakistani Prime Minister was quoted as having said that millions of Muslims could flee India due to the “curfew” in Kashmir and also India’s new citizenship law, creating “a refugee crisis that would dwarf other crises”.
India’s CAA could not only lead to refugee crisis in south Asia but conflict between nuclear armed nations : Imran Kan
