New Delhi: Pakistan along with its all-weather ally China has left no stone unturned in sensationalising the Kashmir issue at the UN platform last week, to which India responded the leadership of both countries in equal measure.
The global community was not far behind in slamming the Pakistani PM Imran Khan who has time and again called Modi administration anti-Muslim and compared it with Nazis.
United States Acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Alice Wells came down heavily on Pakistani PM for only talking about Kashmiri Muslims and completely avoiding any query on nearly one million Uyghurs and Turkic speaking Muslims under Chinese detention in Xinjiang province.
Observer Research Foundation's Director Research Professor Harsh V Pant called this bonhomie nothing more than Pakistan's dependency on China for its economic salvation.
ORF Director Research Harsh Pant "On China, Pakistan's reaction is pretty expected. Why would Pakistan rake up an issue against a country on which they are completely reliant on economic salvation. They rely on them more than they used to rely on America," said Harsh V Pant.
In the present situation, Pakistan is highly dependent on China for its trade. Beijing invested approximately $60 billion in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor which India has been opposing since the beginning as it goes through the PoK region.
For China, relations with Pakistan is of utmost as it sees India as a credible challenge in the neighbourhood. It is using territorial gateway provided by Pakistan to extend its claws in the Central Asia and Eurasia region.
It is also a matter of contention for China as India and its all-weather ally Bhutan are the only two countries in the South Asia region which are still not part of President Xi Jinping's highly ambitious Belt and Road Initiative.
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