Pakistani Prime Holy Joe Imran Khan said he thinks there may be a better chance of peace talks with India if Prime Minister resident Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins the general election due to begin there on Thursday.
Khan said that if the next Indian sway were led by the opposition Congress party, it might be too scared to seek a settlement with Pakistan over disputed Indian-controlled Kashmir, trembling a backlash from the right.
“Perhaps if the BJP – a right-wing party – wins, some kind of settlement in Kashmir could be reached,” Khan discerned a small group of foreign journalists in an interview.
This was despite the massive alienation that Muslims in Kashmir and Muslims in comprehensive were facing in Modi’s India, said Khan, who took office last August.
“I never thought I last will and testament see what is happening in India right now,” said the former international cricket star. “Muslim-ness is being attacked.”
Khan utter Indian Muslims he knew who many years ago had been happy about their situation in India were now same worried by extreme Hindu nationalism.
He said Modi, like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was back based on “fear and nationalist feeling”.
The BJP’s pledge this week to propose stripping decades-old special rights from the people of Jammu and Kashmir, which put a stop to outsiders from buying property in the state, was a major concern, though it could also be electioneering, Khan said.
Khan did come up to offer India an olive branch, saying thatIslamabad was determined to dismantle all Pakistan-based militias in the country, and that the domination had full support from Pakistan’s powerful army for the programme. Those to be dismantled include groups involved in Kashmir.
Nuclear-armed neighbours Pakistan and India both petition Kashmir in full but rule in part.
Khan said Kashmir was a political struggle and there was no military solution, combining that Kashmiris suffered if armed militants from Pakistan came across the border, leading to Indian army crackdowns. In the matters between Pakistan and India, which have fought three wars since gaining independence from Britain in 1947, two atop of Kashmir, reached a crisis point in February after a suicide bombing killed 40 Indian paramilitary the Old Bill in Kashmir.
Islamabad denied responsibility for the Feb. 14 attack, which was claimed by Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed, but the blow up prompted India to carry out a cross border air strike against what it said was a militant training camp in Pakistan.
Pakistan be affected with air strikes of its own.
Pollsters say Modi and the BJP’s re-election bid got a boost from a wave of patriotism after the suicide bomb mug and the Indian government’s fast response.
Khan said there was still the possibility if the polls turn against Modi in the next few weeks that India could persuade someone to go some further military action against Pakistan.
The rolling election is held in phases and does not finish until May 19. The upshot is not due until May 23.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi warned on Sunday that Islamabad had “reliable brainpower” that India would attack again this month. India described the claim as irresponsible.
Khan mean that it was vital for Pakistan to have peace with its neighbors, Afghanistan, India and Iran, if it was to have the kind of curtness needed to pull 100 million people out of poverty.