Imran Khan's UN speech was an utter embarrassment

[Kompromat]

The pain must've been excruciating.

 

[TeesraIndiotHunter]

Speech was for his domestic audience.

That, and too embarrass india and Modi on global stage....and successfully brand indian government is ultra-rightwing nutcase.

And he successfully did (especially in leftist circles of the western world)

Only one embarrassed was india. You democratically elected PM...with highest votes of the indian people...was called Hitler, Fascist, and "complacent" in massacre of minorities....all infront of the world leaders. Hell, Imran Khan even mentioned how Modi was banned from US because he was seen the a butcher of minorities. And that speech was covered at FAR greater length by world media than your irrelevant speech by Modi.

Even now, Imran Khan's speech is the highest viewed of all the speeches. He practically destroyed the brand Modi for millions across the world. Your PM chai wala couldn't stand up to the alpha Imran Khan. Imran's charm utterly dwarfed Modi and humiliated entire india. That's why your cricketers and celebrities are crying about the speech in frustration....while Pakistanis are LOVING IK's speech and enjoying poor indians melt down.

You can try to soothe yourself by using words like 'embarrassment'....but we ALL know who actually got embarrassed and who's feeling it (Hint: That's why you opened the thread to begin with).

Just like 27th Feb, Pakistan military humiliated india globally so much so that NY TIMES literally called it 'humiliating episode for india'

Now, the branding of Modi and RSS as fascist on world stage has done the same. After IK's speech, Malaysian PM called revoking of 370 as "invasion of Kashmir by india" at UNGA Poor indians can't even do a small thing in their own country without literally get their faces in the mud worldwide...

Nobody uttered a single word of Pakistan's construction of CPEC through Azad Kashmir (which is a bigger strategic change in the region (Kashmir) than filmsy 370 revokation).

Shows you how utterly dominated india is on diplomatic front on Kashmir issue thanks to Imran Khan's blitzkreig

 

[R Wing]

Digging for dirt in the filthiest of marshes

It's good to have you on this forum.

 

[ARMalik]

Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, on Sept. 27, 2019.Lucas Jackson / Reuters

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly began with safe comments on the environment. After that it descended into medieval parochialism. It contained little that would win over any enlightened listener, and it failed to win support from the 16-member human rights council to investigate Indian human rights abuses in Kashmir.

Yet among Pakistanis, Khan’s primary audience, the speech won accolades. Most applauded it for its comments on religion and the Kashmir crisis. The PM ostensibly represents the educated elite, but he showed appalling lack of insight into the worldwide consequences of certain Muslim sensibilities. No wonder the first secretary of the Indian ministry of external affairs Vidisha Maitra described the speech as “crude” and suggested it mainstreamed terror.

By insisting that the West should refrain from insulting the prophet Mohammed because he lives in the hearts of Muslims, Khan tried to validate the myth of universal Muslim victimhood. He appeared to justify the violent responses many Muslims have to any perceived insults to Islam.

According to Khan, it is a natural outcome if Muslims are to feel “hurt”. Yet how hurt do self-defined victims need to feel before they form a rabble and beat to death a member of a religious minority, or shoot a politician opposed to blasphemy laws? These things are common enough in Pakistan that they barely make international news.

Freedom of expression is everyone’s right. The PM has so completely lost all sense of proportion over “insults” to the prophet that he equates Muslim offence with the holocaust. He even compared the wearing of the hijab with “taking clothes off” in the West. Rather than condemning the murderous insanity that takes place among the Pakistani masses, Khan offered a lengthy rationalization.

His worst was provoking India over Kashmir by once again justifying the radicalization of Kashmiri Muslims. On previous occasions Khan has labelled terrorists “freedom fighters”, failing to acknowledge that when freedom fighters kill innocent people indiscriminately, by definition they become terrorists.

Khan’s implication that there is only one Islam allows the rest of the world to class all Muslims together with the extremists as backward and barbaric. He also suggested that radicalization is somehow a natural and inevitable outcome of marginalization. This overlooks the fact that Osama bin Laden and most of the 9/11 bombers, for example, came from the middle classes. Khan calls himself moderate, but no educated leader with such blinkered views deserves such a moniker.

Khan’s speech was an utter embarrassment and Pakistanis, instead of hailing it as courageous and candid, should have condemned it en masse. Their prime minister, in whom they placed so much trust, has let them down on every single issue that he touched upon in the speech.

Instead of meeting the world even halfway on extremist-related issues or the question of Islamophobia, Khan blatantly pitted the world of Islam against the Western world by drawing flawed dichotomies throughout the speech. His lack of sophistication in the matter has in fact strengthened India’s image while weakening Pakistan’s. Worse, it has put Pakistan on track for even further diplomatic isolation.

Khan claims to be concerned about the plight of his disadvantaged people, but views like his can only produce further suspicion of his compatriots.

Dear Mods, why are these tree monkeys allowed to post Indian Propaganda here not only against Pakistan but also Kashmir?? People like these should be warned and banned from this forum. Dear @waz ..... here is another one.

 

[Haris Ali2140]

Imran Khan's speech was such an embarrassment that since that speech everyday Indians are coming up with shitty propaganda articles to malign it.

 

[R Wing]

Speech was for his domestic audience.

My, my, my...

If only Indian intellect could widen. As the largest country in the region by any measure (land mass, population, economy, military size, military budget, etc.), it would have been nice to see maturity, introspection and moral leadership.

Instead what we have in India is a private media that could put any state-owned propaganda machine to shame, a right-wing essentially-militant Hindu party winning by a landslide, the Butcher of Gujrat --- earlier denied visas in the West because of the blood on his hands --- as the PM, Kashmiri freedom fighters who target (illegal and armed) occupying forces labeled 'terrorists' and a general lack of any semblance of balance and sense of reality. It's actually quite funny --- till you realize that all this is being controlled by narrow-minded Hindu supremacist maniacs backed by a vast social media/cyber troll army.

The West's need to develop India to contain growing Chinese influence and to access its consumer markets has allowed Indian intolerance and religious violence to go largely unchecked --- and, worryingly, many educated Indians have also fallen for the myth of a progressive and morally righteous state.

The speech was not for his domestic audience, as he can and does address us locally when he needs to. If you don't think there is something rotten in India, then you're part of the problem.

Peace.

 

[Mav3rick]

Why so much attention to a nonsense article by some nobody in a nothing tabloid? Should be closed down.

 

[Jackdaws]

That, and too embarrass india and Modi on global stage....and successfully brand indian government is ultra-rightwing nutcase.

And he successfully did (especially in leftist circles of the western world)

Leftist didn't need convincing. States and leaders did.

My, my, my...

If only Indian intellect could widen. As the largest country in the region by any measure (land mass, population, economy, military size, military budget, etc.), it would have been nice to see maturity, introspection and moral leadership.

Instead what we have in India is a private media that could put any state-owned propaganda machine to shame, a right-wing essentially-militant Hindu party winning by a landslide, the Butcher of Gujrat --- earlier denied visas in the West because of the blood on his hands --- as the PM, Kashmiri freedom fighters who target (illegal and armed) occupying forces labeled 'terrorists' and a general lack of any semblance of balance and sense of reality. It's actually quite funny --- till you realize that all this is being controlled by narrow-minded Hindu supremacist maniacs backed by a vast social media/cyber troll army.

The West's need to develop India to contain growing Chinese influence and to access its consumer markets has allowed Indian intolerance and religious violence to go largely unchecked --- and, worryingly, many educated Indians have also fallen for the myth of a progressive and morally righteous state.

The speech was not for his domestic audience, as he can and does address us locally when he needs to. If you don't think there is something rotten in India, then you're part of the problem.

Peace.

If you think that Pak has any locus standi to speak from a moral pulpit and lecture, then you are living in a fool's paradise.

 

[SirHatesALot]

Speech was for his domestic audience.

i agree and disagree too nuclear bogey was intended for international audience

 

[The Eagle]

If you think that Pak has any locus standi to speak from a moral pulpit and lecture, then you are living in a fool's paradise.

That only belongs to Modi...huh.

IK should have been talking about toilets and Mahan RSS.
well, IK speech is like alien to RSSed society and it has nothing to do with BJP walas at all....

 

[loanranger]

Lol

 

[newb3e]

Leftist didn't need convincing. States and leaders did.


If you think that Pak has any locus standi to speak from a moral pulpit and lecture, then you are living in a fool's paradise.

you sound very intelligent bro!!

what rss school did you go to? did you wear safroni topi sheilding your precious brain from non hindutava opinions?

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Just looking at the sheer numbers of audience who has watched the speech, the comments on YouTube and the total number of views in excess of 10 million, the speech was a huge success.

As for Modi speech the less said the better.

 

[Haris Ali2140]

Just looking at the sheer numbers of audience who has watched the speech, the comments on YouTube and the total number of views in excess of 10 million, the speech was a huge success.

As for Modi speech the less said the better.

Well toilets are a big issue in India.

 

[Sabretooth]

Imran embarrassed himself.
Islam is bad.
Pakistani are dirty people.
India is a superpower.
Now let's move on.