Prime Minister Imran Khan has dismissed Western countries’ dubitation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the Gwadar harborage, adding that the systems were a great occasion for indigenous development.
He expressed the views during an interview with Dr Eric Li, the director of the premonitory commission of the China Institute at Fudan University. The interview, which was mugged during the premier’s recent trip to Beijing, was released on Thursday with Urdu mottoes.
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“I don’t understand why there’s dubitation about CPEC and the Gwadar harborage. It makes no sense because, as far as Pakistan is concerned, my number one precedence is the country’s 220 million people,”PM Imran said.
He said that nearly 25-30 per cent of the country was below the poverty line, adding that Pakistan had suffered greatly due to once loose governments and the’ war on terror’.
“Pakistan should noway have shared in the war. While the US lost people in the 20 times since9/11, Pakistan lost people and ( suffered) a loss of over$ 100 billion to the frugality.”
He reiterated that the government’s top precedence was to look after the people, adding that the emphasis was on geo-economics.
“We want to make our frugality and lift our people out of poverty,”he said, adding that Pakistan looked towards China as a part model in this regard.”We see CPEC and Gwadar as a great occasion for geo-economics.”
He noted that the action wasn’t exclusive to China and Pakistan and said that other countries were also welcome to invest in CPEC systems.
Afghanistan
Opining on Afghanistan, PM Imran said that the Unites States didn’t study the history of the war- torn country.”There’s a saying that those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it again. So anyone who understood the history of Afghanistan would noway have done what the Americans did.”
He went on to say that he’d refocused out from the launch that the US would not succeed militarily in Afghanistan.”First of all, they were noway clear on what they were trying to achieve in Afghanistan. Was it nation- structure? Was it republic? Was it liberating the Afghan women? They had no clear points.”
The high minister said that the US charge was over formerly Osama Bin Laden was killed as”theoretically they only came to fight Al Qaeda”, adding that the terrorist group was” devastated”within the first two times of the US irruption.
He said that when a country has no clear points when overrunning another, it would always affect in failure.
“Secondly, they do not understand the Afghan character. The people of Afghanistan don’t accept nonnatives in their country as autocrats. They don’t accept control from the outside.”
He reiterated that there couldn’t be a military result in Afghanistan as he was apprehensive of the country’s history.”My ancestors came to India from Afghanistan.”
PM Imran said that the US generals believed in their horsepower and allowed they were insurmountable.”But if a people don’t want to be ruled, you can not rule them.”
He said that the US charge in Afghanistan was” grounded on a false premise”, had”no clear pretensions”and was noway going to succeed.
The premier also reflected on the philanthropic extremity in Afghanistan, stating that the US was unfit to distinguish between the Taliban government and Afghanistan’s 40 million people.
He said that a philanthropic extremity was unfolding as the US was sanctioning the Taliban government in an attempt to” discipline”them.
“ If Afghanistan descends into chaos because of the warrants (.) this will be the biggest man- made mortal disaster,” he said.
He said the world demanded to move the Americans that this wasn’t the way to go about dealing with Afghanistan as chaos would weaken the Taliban government’s capability to take on transnational terrorists similar as ISIS.
Relations with India
When asked about Pakistan’s relations with India, PM Imran said that he knew the neighbouring country”better than utmost Pakistanis”due to his cricketing career.”I used to play there a lot and I entered a lot of love and respect from India.”
When my government came into power, my first precedence was to normalise ties with India, he said, adding that enthralled Kashmir was the only issue between the two countries.
He said that the current Indian government allowed that India belonged only to the Hindus, and in doing so, it was marginalising around 700 million mortal beings who were now considered”second- class citizens”.
He called it a” great tragedy”and dubbed it the reason why India was facing problems from within and with its neighbours.
“We just hope that better sense prevails because as effects are going, I suppose India will damage itself much further than anyone differently.”
Treatment of Uighurs
At the tail- end of his interview, the high minister was asked about allegations of genocide against Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang fiefdom and his perspective.
“We asked our minister in China, Moinul Haque, to go and have a look in Xinjiang and find out what’s actually going on. The report he gave us was fully different to what’s coming out on Western media.”
He quoted the envoy as saying that the emphasis on development in Xinjiang was” unknown”.
“He did mention that there were terrorist attacks by East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) because of which there’s a security issue,”PM Imran said.
“But the kind of effects we were told do not live in Xinjiang,”he said.
