Imran Khan Admits Pak's Failure To Internationalise Kashmir Issue; Again Quotes Congress On J&K Lockdown

Imran Khan quoted the opposition party Congress to launch attack on New Delhi over the Kashmir decision.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during a press conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24, 2019. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP)

New Delhi: After getting repeated snubs on Kashmir issue despite his desperate attempts, Pakistan PM Imran Khan admitted that he failed in his attempt to internationalise the issue, and said he was disappointed with the world community. Ever since India has suspended Article 370 which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan has cried foul on several platforms. However, most of the countries backed New Delhi on the matter. "(I am) Disappointed by the international community. If eight million Europeans or Jews or even eight Americans were put under siege, would the reaction have been the same? There's no pressure yet on Modi to lift the siege. We'll keep putting the pressure...What are 9,00,000 troops doing there? Once the curfew is lifted, god knows what is going to happen after that...You think Kashmiris will quietly accept that Kashmir has been annexed?" he stated at a press conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Imran Khan quoted the Indian opposition party Congress to launch attack on New Delhi over the Kashmir decision. "For a start, they have to lift the curfew, that's the beginning. Even the Congress party in India has commented that poor people have been shut inside for 50 days. No one knows what's happening with the political prisoners... (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi has boxed himself in a blind alley," Khan said. Earlier this month, the opening pages of a leaked Pakistan's dossier on Jammu and Kashmir contained the statements made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah in the wake of the abrogation of Article 370. "It has been 20 days since the people of Jammu and Kashmir had their freedom and civil liberties curtailed. Leaders of the Opposition and Press got a taste of draconian administration and brute force unleashed on people of Jammu and Kashmir when we tried to visit Srinagar," Gandhi had been quoted as saying in the pages. After facing crictism, Rahul Gandhi clarified his stance and hit out at Pakistan for instigating violence in Jammu and Kashmir and asserted that matters related to the region are India's internal issues with no room for interference by Islamabad.