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Pakistani PM Khan accuses Modi of leading India down the path of Nazi Germany… again ‘Nazi Germany’ comparison once again: Pakistan’s Imran Khan resorts to strong rhetoric against PM Modi’s India
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In yet another outburst against Narendra Modi’s policies, Pakistani PM Imran Khan has accused India’s govt of leading the country down the same path Nazi Germany took from a liberal democracy to a “totalitarian, racist state.” PM Imran Khan has once again accused India’s prime minister of leading the country down the same path Nazi Germany took, as the two states are polarized by their view of India’s policy towards Kashmir and its new citizenship law.
Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Khan expressed his “fear” that Pakistan’s nuclear-armed neighbor was following in the footsteps of Adolf Hitler. What is happening in India “bears striking resemblance to what happened in Nazi Germany. Between 1930 and 1934, Germany went from a liberal democracy to a fascist, totalitarian, racist state,” Khan told Foreign Policy.
The Pakistani leader said India was envisioned as a multicultural and secular society by Mahatma Gandhi and its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, but Modi has turned it into a society hostile to Muslims. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Khan expressed his “fear” that Pakistan’s nuclear-armed rival was following in the footsteps of Adolf Hitler.
Prime Minister Modi, however, says the Indian government has on the contrary “delivered on the wishes of our great freedom fighters who got us Independence.” The latest developments in India bear a “striking resemblance to what happened in Nazi Germany,” Khan told Foreign Policy, noting that in 1930-1934, Germany “went from a liberal democracy to a fascist, totalitarian, racist state.” He described it as a “disaster” for India which is “a multicultural society and a secular society.”
This is not the first time Khan has made the brazen comparison between India and Nazi Germany. He brought it up in December in a speech to a conference of Pakistani-American doctors, as well as in a tweet back in August. The Pakistani leader has been fiercely critical of the new Indian law that would expedite citizenship for non-Muslim refugees, as well as New Delhi’s decision to revoke the autonomy of Kashmir. This is not the first time Khan has made the brazen comparison between India and Nazi Germany. He brought it up in December in a speech to a conference of Pakistani-American doctors, as well as in an emotive tweet back in August.
New Delhi has repeatedly rejected criticism of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), saying that it does not affect Indian Muslims at all, and is only intended to help religious minorities facing “humiliation” in Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Modi’s government also abolished Article 370 of the Indian Constitution that gave special status to Kashmir, arguing that it was time for the territory to become fully integrated into India. Two of the main reasons for Khan’s anger have been India’s decision to withdraw the special status of Kashmir, and its adoption of new citizenship legislation that critics say discriminates against Muslims.
Present-day Pakistan and Bangladesh were created in 1947 during the partition of the British Indian Empire, as independent Muslim-majority states. India and Pakistan have been at each other’s throats ever since, in particular over the disputed princedom of Kashmir that both claim as their own. The issues have led Indian-Pakistani relations to the boiling point. Last summer, a flare-up of tensions occurred when Prime Minister Modi’s government abolished Article 370 of the Constitution which gave special status to Kashmir. The Pakistani leader fiercely criticized the move, but New Delhi insisted that it was necessary in order to develop the region and combat corruption.
A while later, Khan attacked Modi for adopting the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which India says serves strictly humanitarian purposes and intends to help religious minorities from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The new legislation sparked huge protests across India.
However, when asked about the possibility of conflict between Pakistan and India, Khan stated: “We’re not close to conflict right now.”
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