Imran Khan paints Pakistan as victim of US ungratefulness

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NEW YORK – Prime Minister Imran Khan sought to formed Pakistan arsenic the unfortunate of American ungratefulness and an planetary treble modular successful his code to the United Nations General Assembly connected Friday.

In a prerecorded code aired during the evening, the Pakistani premier curate touched connected a scope of topics that included clime change, planetary Islamophobia and “the plunder of the processing satellite by their corrupt elites” — the second of which helium likened to what the East India Company did to India.

It was for India's authorities that Khan reserved his harshest words, erstwhile again labeling Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist authorities “fascist.” But the cricketer turned posh planetary personage turned person was successful crook indignant and plaintive arsenic helium painted the United States arsenic an abandoner of some Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan.

“For the existent concern successful Afghanistan, for immoderate reason, Pakistan has been blamed for the crook of events, by politicians successful the United States and immoderate politicians successful Europe,” Khan said. “From this platform, I privation them each to know, the state that suffered the most, isolated from Afghanistan, was Pakistan erstwhile we joined the U.S. warfare connected panic aft 9/11.”

He launched into a communicative that began with the United States and Pakistan grooming mujahedeen — regarded arsenic heroes by the likes of then-President Ronald Reagan, helium said — during the Soviet concern of Afghanistan. But Pakistan was near to prime up the pieces — millions of refugees and caller sectarian militant groups — erstwhile the Soviets and the Americans near successful 1989.

Khan said the U.S. sanctioned its erstwhile spouse a twelvemonth later, but past came calling again aft the 9/11 attacks. Khan said Pakistan's assistance to the U.S. outgo 80,000 Pakistani lives and caused interior strife and dissent directed astatine the state, each portion the U.S. conducted drone attacks.

“So, erstwhile we perceive this astatine the end. There is simply a batch of interest successful the U.S. astir taking attraction of the interpreters and everyone who helped the U.S.,” helium said, referring to Afghanistan. “What astir us?”

Instead of a specified "word of appreciation,” Pakistan has received blame, Khan said.

Despite Khan's rhetoric espousing a tendency for peace, many Afghans person blamed Pakistan for the Taliban's resurgence successful Afghanistan due to the fact that of adjacent links. The United Nations successful August besides rejected Pakistan's petition to springiness its broadside astatine a peculiar gathering connected Afghanistan, indicating the planetary community's shared skepticism.

In his speech, Khan echoed what his overseas minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, told The Associated Press earlier this week connected the sidelines astatine the U.N.: the planetary assemblage should not isolate the Taliban, but alternatively fortify the existent Afghan authorities for the involvement of the people.

He struck an optimistic code astir Taliban rule, saying their leaders had committed to quality rights, an inclusive authorities and not allowing terrorists connected Afghan soil. But messages from the Taliban person been mixed.

A Taliban laminitis told the AP earlier this week that the hard-liners would erstwhile again transportation retired executions and amputated hands — though this clip aft adjudication by judges, including women, and perchance not successful public.

“If the satellite assemblage incentivizes them, and encourages them to locomotion this talk, it volition beryllium a win-win concern for everyone,” helium said.

Khan besides turned his ire connected that aforesaid assemblage for what helium perceives arsenic a escaped walk fixed to India.

“It is unfortunate, precise unfortunate, that the world’s attack to violations of quality rights lacks even-handedness, and adjacent is selective. Geopolitical considerations, oregon firm interests, commercialized interests often compel large powers to place the transgressions of their affiliated countries,” Khan said.

He went done a litany of actions that person “unleashed a reign of fearfulness and unit against India’s 200 cardinal beardown Muslim community,” helium said, including lynchings, pogroms and discriminatory citizenship laws.

As successful years past, Khan — who favors delivering his speeches successful his British-inflected English, successful opposition to Modi's Hindi addresses — devoted important clip to Kashmir.

“New Delhi has besides embarked connected what it ominously calls the ‘final solution’ for the Jammu and Kashmir dispute,” Khan said, rattling disconnected a database of what helium termed “gross and systematic violations of quality rights” committed by Indian forces. He specifically decried the “forcible snatching of the mortal remains of the large Kashmiri leader, ” Syed Ali Geelani , who died earlier this period astatine 91.

Geelani's household has said authorities took his assemblage and buried him discreetly and without their consent, denying the separatist person revered successful Kashmir a due Islamic burial. Khan called upon the General Assembly to request Geelani's due burial and rites.

Kashmir is divided betwixt India and Pakistan and has been claimed by some since they won independency from the British empire and began warring implicit their rival claims.

He said Pakistan desires peace, but it is India’s work to meaningfully engage.

Modi is acceptable to code the U.N. General Assembly successful idiosyncratic connected Saturday, a time aft a bilateral meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden.

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