Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Addressing the mass protests in India over the controversial citizenship bill, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Saturday that India’s threats to Pakistan were increasing and in case of a false-flag operation by New Delhi, Islamabad will have no other option but to give a ‘befitting response’.
Taking to Twitter, the prime minister said that all Indians who wanted a pluralist India had taken to the streets for a ‘mass movement’.
The Prime Minister warned the world that “Pakistan will have no option but to give a befitting response” to India if it undertakes a “false-flag operation”.
The premier’s statement comes in the backdrop of a recent statement by Indian army chief Bipin Rawat who had said that the situation at the restive Line of Control can “escalate any time”.
“We (Indian army) have to be prepared for the spiralling of the escalatory matrix,” Rawat was quoted by Indian media as saying.
PM Imran’s statement comes as a massive movement in India has taken root in which citizens are galvanising to protest the newly introduced Citizenship Amendment Act. The Act makes it easier for non-Muslims from the neighbouring countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan to gain Indian citizenship.“Over the last 5 years of Modi’s government, India has been moving towards Hindu Rashtra with its Hindutva Supremacist fascist ideology. Now with the Citizens Amendment Act, all those Indians who want a pluralist India are beginning to protest and it is becoming a mass movement,” said the premier. PM Imran issued a stark reminder of the ongoing siege by Indian occupation forces in India-occupied Kashmir, saying that “a bloodbath can be expected when it is lifted”.
He said as the protests in India continue to gain pace, so are the “threats to Pakistan from India”.
“[The] Indian army chief’s statement adds to our concerns of a false-flag operation,” he added.
