Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan admitted for the first time on Tuesday to having been disappointed by the lack of response to his campaign to bring international pressure on India over Kashmir, blaming it on India\u2019s appeal as a \u201cmarket of 1 billion people\u201d and the fact that Kashmiris are predominantly Muslim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo be absolutely frank, I am a bit disappointed by the international community,\u201d Khan told reporters at a news briefing at the United Nations, claiming that the reaction would have been different and more urgent had it been eight million Europeans or the Jewish people or Americans who had been put under siege; it would been different had it been just eight Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is no pressure on Narendra Modi to lift the siege,\u201d Khan said, referring to the restrictions in place in Kashmir since the nullification of Article 370 on August 5 and 6, which stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its special status, and the decision to bifurcate of the state into two Union Territories, J&K and Ladakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And, he said, he believes the other reason for the lack of international alarm has to do with the fact that \u201cpeople look upon India as a market of 1 billion people and sadly that\u2019s what is happening material comes over the human\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Khan and his delegation have raised Kashmir at every forum and meeting and, by his own admission, done everything possible. He listed the world leaders he has spoken to, and not necessarily at the United Nations General Assembly:\u2009US President Donald Trump, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel and France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only Trump responded to his call with an offer of mediation, which came before the nullification of Article 370, and went nowhere and he may have dropped it altogether now after he said on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi by his side, that the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers can resolve the dispute once they get down to it; he, notably, did not offer his services. Just hours before, though, he had said he stands ready to help if both sides want him to; and clearly, India doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No other world leaders have publicly aligned themselves with Trump yet, and that has disappointed Khan, who said, however, he felt encouraged that Turkey\u2019s Tayyip Erdogan spoke of Kashmir in his UNGA speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn order for the Kashmiri people to look at a safe future together with their Pakistani and Indian neighbors, it is imperative to solve the problem through dialogue and on the basis of justice and equity, but not through collision,\u201d Erdogan said. He went on to call for lifting the restrictions, but did not seek either third-party mediation or questioned, or demanded a rollback of, the change in the constitutional status of Kashmir, both key demands of Khan\u2019s \u201cMission Kashmir\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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