(30 Aug 2019) Pakistan's prime minister said Friday he had warned the international community that India could launch an attack on Pakistani-held Kashmir in an effort to divert the attention from human rights abuses in its portion of the disputed Himalayan region.
In a speech at a rally in Islamabad, Imran Khan said his country will give a "befitting response" to the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi if it attacked.
"Every brick will be countered with a stone," he said. "Our armed forces are ready" to respond to any such attack, he said.
Khan said any conflict between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India will not be confined to the South Asian region. "The whole world will be affected" because of it, he said, adding that he will raise the issue when he addresses the UN General Assembly next month.
Khan said that people in Indian-administered Kashmir had been living under curfew for almost four weeks since New Delhi downgraded Kashmir's autonomy on August 5 and imposed a security clampdown to prevent any violence.
Khan assured his government's full support to Kashmiri people and said he hoped that Indian-administered Kashmir will soon get independence.
He described Modi as a "fascist" and compared him with Adolf Hitler, saying he feared a "genocide of Muslims in Kashmir." He said Modi had played his "last card" by downgrading the special status of Kashmir.

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