PM Khan claims ‘refugee crisis likely’ over Kashmir
ISLAMABAD: Pakistanprimeminister Imran Khan on Monday claimed that Pakistan may face another refugee crisis if the international community failed to take notice of the current situation in India.
India’s “ultranationalist ideology going unchecked could lead to destruction and the region could become a flashpoint”, he said at a conference marking 40 years of hosting Afghan refugees in his country, attended by visiting UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
Khan said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks that India can destroy Pakistan in 11 days is not a responsible statement by a premier of a nuclear state with a huge population. He insisted that Pakistan is no longer a militant safe haven, and said his administration fully supports the Afghan peace process.
“I can tell you that there are no safe havens here,” he said.
INSECTICIDE IMPORTS FROM INDIA LIKELY
Pakistan is likely to import insecticides from India to brace itself for any locust attacks this summer, bypassing a trade ban. A copy of cabinet agenda for a Tuesday meeting seen by Reuters has the import option on it.
Pakistan severed all diplomatic and trade ties with New Delhi in August after India revoked the special status of Kashmir. “Yes definitely, there is a fear of locust attack in Junejuly, this is the reason we are planning and preparing in advance,” Falak Naz from the ministry of national food security and research told Reuters.
TOXIC GAS LEAK KILLS FIVE IN KARACHI
A toxic gas leak killed five people and sickened dozens more in a coastal residential area in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, police said on Monday. Authorities said they became aware of the incident when people in the Karachi neighbourhood of Kamari, near the main port, suddenly started rushing to the area’s hospitals with severe breathing problems overnight, police said.
SUICIDE BLAST KILLS 10 IN BALOCH CAPITAL
At least 10 people were killed in a suicide blast that hit a police vehicle in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said.
Two police personnel were among those killed in the blast in the city of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.