Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has held out a triple threat to the world if it does not put pressure on India on the Kashmir issue: a risk of a nuclear war, radicalisation of Muslims around the world and a bloody uprising in the area.

Calling for international intervention at a news conference here on Tuesday, he said that the situation in Kashmir is just the beginning and it will be the first time since the 1962 Cuban crisis that two nuclear-armed countries will be facing off.
“This has the possibility of the unthinkable,” he said.

After the restrictions are lifted, all the Kashmiris, including those like the state’s former Chief Ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti who were kept on a lockdown, will rise and they have “lost fear of death”, he asserted.

Khan offered India lessons in Jawaharlal Nehru’s and Mahatma Gandhi’s secularism while accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party of being “racist and Hindu supremacists”.

He called for the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions on Kashmir, but did not say if he would comply with Resolution 47 on a plebiscite that made Pakistan’s withdrawal from the territories it occupied in Kashmir a precondition.

Khan accused the international community of putting trade and economic interests above people and ignoring Kashmir because India represented a market of 1.3 billion people.

He also alleged that the world was ignoring the plight of the people of Kashmir because they were Muslims. If eight million Europeans or Jews or even eight Americans were kept under a “lockdown” for 50 days, would the situation be the same? he asked.

After 9/11, “Islamic terrorism” became an excuse to discriminate against Muslims and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was hoping that he could get away by invoking it, Khan claimed.International leaders and the UN should at least ask the Indian government to lift the curfew, he added.