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Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Saturday, 2nd March said that today after 70 years of independence India was divided while Pakistan was united, local press reported. “Establishment of peace in the region is the topmost priority of the government,” the minister said while addressing the convocation of a private university in Lahore.
Pakistan was proud of its talented youth which constituted 65 percent of its population, he said addressing the youth in attendance.
Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said that parlays were the only solution to ‘resolve the conflicts between the two countries while the Indian government wanted to create a hostile situation in India before elections’. Indian political spectra have been observed to use Pakistan-bashing as an election slogan before but the 2019 war-hysteria stands as a distinctive example.
“Prime Minister Imran Khan played a sagacious role in de-escalating tensions between Pakistan and India. The resolution has been forwarded to the speaker National Assembly for consideration.”
The Federal Minister said that war was not in the interest of anybody and winning or losing it was just an illusion because it would cause destruction’. The Prime Minister, in his address post-PAF downing Indian MIG had said that two countries with weapons such as they (India and Pakistan) possess, should not consider war a possibility.
The minister for information and broadcasting also said that India was under immense pressure from the international community, as the world had been requesting it not to escalate tension in the region.
Fawad Chaudhry said that there was no environment of war in the country as the main focus was to make the country’s economy stronger by promoting investment and reducing poverty. Fawad also said that Pakistan was also playing its effective role to ensure stability in Afghanistan. He said Pakistan’s relation with Kashmir was not of the area, but it was a blood relation. “India captured Kashmir and now Kashmir has captured Indian narrative”.
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Fawad Chaudhry has also moved a resolution in the assembly for Pakistan to nominate Prime Minister Imran Khan for the Nobel Peace Prize. “Prime Minister Imran Khan played a sagacious role in de-escalating tensions between Pakistan and India. The resolution has been forwarded to the speaker National Assembly for consideration.”