He expressed “searing ache and anguish” over the plight of the individuals in Gaza, stating, “our hearts bleed as we witness the tragedy unfolding within the Holy Land, a tragedy that shakes the very conscience of humanity.”
“Can we, as human beings, stay silent whereas youngsters lie buried underneath the rubble of their shattered properties?ِ Can we flip a blind eye to the moms, cradling the lifeless our bodies of their youngsters?ِ” he requested, stressing that this isn’t only a battle however a “systematic slaughter of harmless individuals”.
He emphasised that it isn’t sufficient to sentence the battle, however fairly there should be fast motion in the direction of a two-State answer primarily based on pre-1967 borders and full membership on the UN for Palestine.
With out such an answer, “[the current conflict] threatens to tug all the Center East right into a struggle, whose penalties may very well be grave and past creativeness”.
The Prime Minister of Pakistan likens the plight of the individuals of Palestine to these in Jammu and Kashmir the place they’ve “struggled for a century for his or her freedom and proper to self-determination”.
He underscored that since 5 August 2019, India has initiated “unilateral unlawful steps to impose what its leaders ominously name a ‘Remaining Resolution’ for Jammu and Kashmir” with 900,000 Indian troops terrorising the individuals there by extended curfews, extra-judicial killings and the kidnapping of 1000’s of younger Kahmiris.
In response to “huge growth of its navy capabilities that are basically deployed towards Pakistan”, he asserted that “Pakistan will reply most decisively to any Indian aggression.”
Turning to the growing impacts of local weather change, the Prime Minister mentioned that whereas his nation emits lower than one per cent of carbon globally, it needed to pay a really heavy worth, together with the $30 billion in damages from catastrophic floods two years in the past.
“We should uphold the axiom: the polluter pays!” he declared.
Moreover, almost 100 growing nations are “trapped in a vicious cycle of debt and liquidity disaster”, he mentioned, naming it a “loss of life entice” and recalling the Secretary-Common’s description of the worldwide monetary structure as “morally bankrupt”.
“The world commerce and expertise regimes should be reformed and aligned to advertise growth and international fairness,” he mentioned.
“We should carry with us a message for our folks that the weak are usually not unvoiced, that the oppressed mustn’t lose hope, that poverty will not be preordained and that the Almighty’s promise of justice and equality in our solely terrestrial dwelling should be revered!” he concluded.