Any Indian false flag operation to be dealt with stronger blow: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday categorically announced that any false flag operation by India in Azad Jammu and Kashmir would be dealt with a stronger blow as Pakistan Army was fully ready to thwart any aggression.

“We are telling the world beforehand that they (India) will do something in Azad Kashmir…I want to make it clear to Narendra Modi that you will be responded with a stronger blow. Here, our army is ready to respond any (Indian) action in Azad Kashmir,” the prime minister said addressing an event held at the PM Office to mark the Kashmir Solidarity Day.

The Kashmir Solidarity Hour was observed on the prime minister’s call on Friday which featured bunch of activities including vehicular traffic and government machinery coming to standstill besides countrywide rallies to support the Kashmir cause and condemn the Indian atrocities in the Indian occupied Kashmir.

The gathering marked the presence of hundreds of students from various educational institutions, government employees, people from all walks of life.

The doors of PM Office were opened to the general public where the prime minister addressed them. The federal cabinet members and the PTI leaders also accompanied him.

Waving the flags of Pakistan and Kashmir to the tunes of national and Kashmir songs, the gathering chanted slogans "Kashmir banay ga Pakistan" and "Kashmir ko Azad Karo".

The event started with the sounding of sirens at 1157 hours, national anthems of Pakistan and Kashmir at 1200 hours which followed the recitation of Quranic verses.

The prime minister said the whole nation stood united to support eight million Kashmiri people who had been facing curfew for last four weeks.

The prime minister told the gathering that in order to understand the ongoing Indian atrocities in IOK, it was essential to know the philosophy of the RSS which was inspired by the Hitler’s Nazism.

He said the RSS mindset had engulfed the whole India where the Muslims and other minorities were being targeted.

He lamented the silence of the international community on the Kashmir situation and resolved to fight the case of Kashmir at every forum till its freedom.

He said the RSS and BJP were neither adhered to the philosophy of Nehru and Gandhi, nor the Indian Constitution and court verdicts on Kashmir issue.

The prime minister said he would also highlight the issue at the UN General Assembly to show the world the true face of RSS and BJP government.

He said he had apprised the world leaders, foreign media and human rights organizations that RSS mindset would impact the whole world if they kept mum on the Indian atrocities in Occupied Kashmir.

He said the world must realize that any war between two nuclear powers would not merely impact the subcontinent but the entire world.

He said before his address at the UN General Assembly, the Pakistan government would launch a campaign to awaken the international community and the human rights organizations to take note of Indian oppression which Modi regime was concealing from media and the Indian opposition parties.

The prime minister said Narendra Modi had played his last card out of arrogance and believed that it would eventually follow the freedom of Kashmir.