India not in position to attack Pakistan: Rehman Malik

ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister and Chairman Senate’s Committee on Interior Senator Abdul Rehman Malik Tuesday said India was not in position to attack on Pakistan in the context of regional, national and global scenario.

“Following the Pulwama incident, the issue of Kashmir was highlighted internationally and the world acknowledged the fact that a use of force is not solution of any problem but the issues could only be resolve through dialogue and New Delhi has to come on table for the dialogue,” he said while talking to the News and Jang here on Tuesday.

Senator Abdul Rehman Malik said the whole nation united against India with full force and India even failed to create any “Brigade of traitors’ like they created in 1970 in the shape of “Mukhti Bahini”. “Another reason was that Pakistan was playing a role of facilitator for the mediation between the United States and Taliban and Washington did not want disturbance in the process of dialogue with Taliban.

He said China has made a huge investment in the region in the shape of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and China did not allow India to roll back the CPEC. “Even the Russia has also asked India in clear terms to avoid create tensions in the region,” he said.

Senator Abdul Rehman Malik the war hysteria policy of Indian Prime Minter Narendra Modi has completely failed in India as the people of India also opposed the war hysteria policies of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “If India has made any new move of aggression against Pakistan then Indian opposition and people will not accept it,” he said, adding that the Indian PM missed the bus and now Modi could not think of any aggression against Pakistan. However, he said it was an old habit of RSS and RAW to use anti-Pakistan emotions in India as a weapon in the elections in India. “Though there were concerns that India could use the anti-Pakistan sentiments in the upcoming elections in India yet we feel that elections are necessary in India for the peace in the region,” he said.

Senator Abdul Rehman Malik said Pakistan always stood for peace and have a firm belief that the issues could not be resolved through use of force but only through dialogue process.

In a reply to a question, Rehman Malik proposed that there should be separate slab for poor in the national economy to make their life better with issuing special cards for rationing of electricity and gas.

He said international devolution of the local currency was made to increase the exports but in Pakistan it was only made on behest of the IMF due to which every segment of society suffered a lot. “The government completely failed to control the price hike and in the coming days the rising inflation bring more sufferings of the people of Pakistan,” he said.

He said the ruler with smile on his face while seeing the faces of the poor that everything will be “well’ as when the rulers were using the word “well” then its only mean that shrieks of the poor which only means ‘economic strangulation’ of them. “The government should eliminate the poverty not the poor,” he said.

Rehman Malik said the economic indicators were showing that the people will face the economic problems in the coming days and the shrieks of the people will send the rulers to their homes.