Daily Diary (DD) - Day 16 of 2020

0958hrs:

Proceeding to Baloch.......still on schedule despite all the hurdles in between.

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Now, this is what I call lying through one's teeth:

"Let the people of #Kashmir decide what they want. #Pakistan is ready for a referendum or a plebiscite. Let them decide whether they want to remain with Pakistan or to be independent", says #ImranKhan in an exclusive interview with DW's @inespohl. https://t.co/GHrReyNJ1E

— DW Deutsche Welle (@DeutscheWelle) January 16, 2020

Here's the specific clip within the interview where our Western neighbour's political leader simply copies all his predecessors by pretending that his country is the epitome of flexibility when it is actually the master of intransigence. This is the posture that has destroyed Pakistan. It seems IK is no different:

How does @ImranKhanPTI plan to defuse tensions with Delhi?

That's what DW's Editor-in-Chief @inespohl asked the Pakistani prime minister, as tensions increasingly rise over Kashmir. pic.twitter.com/dnUxSviWZZ

— DW News (@dwnews) January 16, 2020

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Check out Pakistan's share:



It is 0.13%. Now, compare that to Bangladesh at 0.19%, India at 3.5% and China at 17.7%. The figures for Afghanistan are not available.

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