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Pakistan needs peace most: Sourav Ganguly slams Imran Khan for his speech at UN

Pakistan needs peace most: Sourav Ganguly slams Imran Khan for his speech at UN

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | 04 Oct 2019, 10:38 am

Kolkata: Slamming Imran Khan for his nuclear war threat at the United Nations last month, former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly said Pakistan is the country which needs peace the most.

Recently former cricketer Virender Sehwag shared a tweet where Khan was seen praising China's infrastructure claiming it as better than first World country US evoking laughter from the show hosts.

Sehwag had said in the tweet, " You sound like a welder from the Bronx, says the anchor. After the pathetic speech in the UN a few days ago , this man seems to be inventing new ways to humiliate himself."

Replying to the tweet, Ganguly said, "Viru .. I see this and I am shocked ..a speech which is unheard of .. a world which needs peace ,pakistan as a country needs it the most .. and the leader speaks such rubbish ..not the Imran khan the cricketer world knew ..speech in UN was poor .."

Attacking India and the Modi government on expected lines, Khan during his UNGA address here on Friday slammed the removal of special status of Jammu and Kashmir (read abrogation of Article 370) by New Delhi and continued lockdown in the region while warning of a bloodbath once the curfew is lifted in the troubled spot. The beleagured Pakistan Prime Minister fired on all cylinders to internationalise the Kashmir issue and even painted the spectre of a nuclear war. 

"If a conventional war starts between the two countries, supposing a country seven times smaller is faced with a choice to surrender or fight to the end," he stated. "When a nuclear country fights till the end it has consequences far beyond the borders," he said.

"And then their agenda became obvious on Aug 5 when they went against all laws (and revoked occupied Kashmir's autonomy). They (India) got an extra 1,80,000 troops there, the total forces are now 9,00,000. They have put eight million people under curfew,"  Khan said in his 45-minute-long address.

"What kind of people bring in 9,00,000 troops for eight million people. These are human beings," Khan asked even as outside the UN building people from Balochistan, Sindh as well as the Muhajirs of Pakistan protested the continued repression and human rights violations by the Islamic nation.

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