Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that India did not reach out to help Pakistan as unprecedented flooding in the country devastated infrastructure and affected over 33 million people. He also said India\u2019s \u201cabsolutely racist\u201d and \u201cIslamophobic\u201d policy has caused reaction not only within Kashmir but all across India.
\nDescribing the current relations with India in the interview, the foreign minister said that, \u201cWe have a long and complicated history with India\u2026 Unfortunately, the India today is a changed India. It is no longer the secular India promised by its founding fathers for all its citizens.\u201d
\n\u201cIt is increasingly becoming a Hindu-supremacist India at the expense of its Christian and Muslim minorities and that\u2019s not the sort of Muslim minorities within India but unfortunately in the disputed region of Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).\u201d
\nHe referred to the August 2019 move when the Indian government revoked the special status of IIOJK, and said these recent steps and actions have left very little space for Pakistan to engage.
\n\u201cUnilateral illegal actions of August 2019 where attempts to undermine the resolution of the United Nations… United Nations Security Council\u2026 and change the boundaries of this disputed territory and going a step further and attempting to change the Muslim majority in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir into a minority in their own land,\u201d the minister said.
\nThe PPP chairman added that the Muslim minority in India is feeling persecuted and insecure. He also said that this is an active policy of the state and this is how the government of India are treating their own Muslim citizens and that one can only imagine how they are treating the Muslims of Pakistan and IIOJK.
\nBilawal added that he believes the younger generation on both sides wants to see the countries living in peace.
\nTalking about the unprecedented flooding in Pakistan, the foreign minister said we are still in the state of an active disaster and the \u201cscale of climate catastrophe in Pakistan is truly apocalyptic\u201d.
\nHe added that the country is still in the rescue and relief phase of this tragedy.
\n\u201cThis monster monsoon that Pakistan experienced started in mid-June and ended at the end of August\u2026 Once the rains finally stopped it left a 100-kilometre lake in the middle of my country that could be seen from space,\u201d he added.
\nThe minister said that the \u201cirony\u201d was that despite producing minimum amount of carbon output, Pakistan was one of the 10 most climate-stressed countries.
\nThe foreign minister said that along with the rest of the international community, Pakistan has not officially recognized the government in Afghanistan.
\nHe added that the interim government has made promises to the international community and to its people and fulfilling those promises would help them gain legitimacy and a path to international recognition.
\nBilawal said primary and segregated tertiary education is being offered but \u201cwe are waiting for secondary education.\u201d
\nHe also commented on the UN report regarding the alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang against Muslim Uighurs and said that we have to be fair and unbiased in our approach and that we can\u2019t pick and choose in such situations. He added that Pakistan\u2019s approach to the report was impartial.
\nOn the recent protests over the death of a woman in the custory of morality police in Iran, Bilawal said he \u201ctrusts\u201d Iran\u2019s foreign minister\u2019s statements of inquiry into the unfortunate incident.
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