Prime Minister Imran Khan just
delivered a much awaited speech at the United Nations General Assembly on 27th
Sept as the highlight of that 45-minutes long address was Kashmir. Although he
took a good start and displayed confident face of Pakistan in his speech but I
feel that he could have done better had he not consumed time on other issues.
Since he was supposed to be there
as the Ambassador of Kashmir to advocate the oppression and sufferings of
Kashmiris, Kashmiris deserved more time of his speech and not a lecture on
other things.
It was unfortunate to note that
even at UNGA, the PM did not fail to ridicule the negativities of his own
country by using uptime to talk about offshore accounts in Pakistan. He should
have realized that this was clearly not necessary and not at all in the
national interest as these things create bad image of the country. It goes
without saying that our internal issues should have not been mentioned there.
I hope someone from his staff had
advised the PM that there is set legal procedure to get the looted: plundered
money back through bilateral agreements and International money laundering
which deals in such cases.
It is unfortunate that most of
those who have taken the plundered money abroad are either from his own party
or from other parties and they are the ones who are the financers of
many politicians sitting in the Parliament
even today and they are still doing it. The PM must know that it is not
the obligation of UN to take action against the accused but the Government on
its own. I wish maximum part of the speech was dedicated to speak on Kashmiris
instead climate change, money laundering and tree plantation which should left
for some other time.
I would like to point out that the
political activities are also sponsored by the same money launders with huge findings.
However I will write a complete article
on this issue with graphic details on the planning, engineering, funding
including transport, foods, chairs and daily payments to the participants of
these sponsored political activities.
We all need to first put our own house in order before exposing the uncontrolled National blunders before the world which means humiliation worldwide.We need to take counter measures to demonstrate our better face as the world looks fully convinced now about Pakistani being corrupt and money launderers.
Hence now onward every green
passport landing at International airports will be a bigger suspect of being
looter and money launderer. I wish the local politics and crime statistics were
not taken to the UN Hall where we are already facing FATF. We are suffering on
false charges of money laundering hence the government needs extra steps to eliminate
this bad impression.
I feel that the Prime Minister would
have done much better by demonstrating the true feeling of Kashmiris with
graphic details of their sufferings with more specific brutalities by Indian
troops. The fellow Pakistani and Overseas Pakistanis were looking forward to
see Prime Minister speaking with more substance by consuming more time.
People have a questions in their
minds as to why the time reserved for Kashmir was given to highlight one
Billion trees in KPK and other non-issues as this day was the day of oppressed Kashmiris?
There was no need to inform the world that Pakistan in the past trained militants which were subsequently launched to lead in a war against USSR. PM exposed Modi well based on his historic record of extremism and only mentioned RSS without elaborating the terrorists’ activities performed by them and how Modi was given title of butcher of Gujrat.
We will have to evade the
impression of being mercenaries as per the statement of PM that we picked up
our guns against Russians upon being hired by USA. On one side we are pleading
that the Pakistanis are corrupt & money launders while on the other hand he
spoke on high moral grounds to support Kashmir without realizing the fact that
the confession of Money laundering by the Prime Minister of a country is a
confession of serious international crime. It was not needed to be mentioned on
such high-level forum.
This was the forum to highlight
what we are facing from neighborhood, which has blocked our water in violation
of Indus Agreement and the immediate war threats from India including daily
violation of LOC.
I am not criticizing the PM but I feel that his staff and MOFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) had not briefed properly with substantive material to him about the growing Kashmir crisis .In fact I had handed over a full folder with evidence and further course of action to MOFA in the Senate standing committees on Kashmir & MOFA.
I believe that we would have
presented our case with more substantive way and with our genuine demands for
Kashmiris. I am sure Should be happy as apart from speech UNGA has neither
given any time line for self-determination nor order to constitute any high
power Commission to investigate the brutalities committed by Army Troops. We
even failed to have the matter of non-implementation of Self-determination
under UN Resolution.
The Article was published in The Nation on September 29, 2019 and the link to the original article is https://nation.com.pk/29-Sep-2019/pm-s-speech-at-unga-kashmir-still-bleeding
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