{"id":6659,"date":"2023-09-22T12:20:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T12:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/shockingly-poor-language-pm-kakar-pilloried-over-comparison-of-pak-china-ties-to-israel-us-ties\/"},"modified":"2023-09-22T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T12:20:33","slug":"shockingly-poor-language-pm-kakar-pilloried-over-comparison-of-pak-china-ties-to-israel-us-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/shockingly-poor-language-pm-kakar-pilloried-over-comparison-of-pak-china-ties-to-israel-us-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shockingly poor language\u2019: PM Kakar pilloried over comparison of Pak-China ties to Israel-US ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar was on Friday censured \u2014 mostly by PTI activists \u2014 for using \u201cshockingly poor language\u201d while describing China\u2019s strong ties to Pakistan by apparently referring to the US support enjoyed by Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The social media criticism comes a day after the premier made the said comparison when speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations on his visit to the US to attend the 78th United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--stretch  media--embed  \">\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"A Conversation With Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar of Pakistan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RIuVp7j-WnY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In the interview (time stamp 55:30), PM Kakar said, \u201cPakistan enjoys a strategic relationship with China. We are very clear that there are people who would qualify Pakistan as China\u2019s Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is probably a more good analogy for [the] American audience because you do understand and appreciate the value of Israel for the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks in response to one of the questions from the attendees of the talk \u2014 \u201cWhat the relationship is now between Pakistan and China?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then went on to highlight how both neighbours \u201chave a lot in common in terms of the emergent crises within the region\u201d and \u201ccommonalities on certain issues\u201d, citing the One-China policy and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1702924\">China\u2019s stance on Taiwan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1749760\">Tibet<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1708727\">Xinjiang<\/a> issues.<\/p>\n<p>As some have pointed out, the statement could be a possible reference to Chinese General Xiong Guangkai\u2019s quote cited in the introduction of Andrew Small\u2019s <em><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com.pk\/books\/edition\/The_China_Pakistan_Axis\/KscdCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0\">The China Pakistan Axis: Asia\u2019s New Geopolitics<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>PTI ex-MPA Taimur Khan Jhagra asked in a post on X (formerly Twitter): \u201cWhy would I want my country to be like \u2018China\u2019s Israel\u2019? Why can we not just define Pakistan as Pakistan itself, and make it a prosperous example for the world to follow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShockingly poor language to compare Pakistan with an apartheid state [that] Pakistan doesn\u2019t recognise,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>PTI\u2019s Faisal Amin Khan, brother of party leader Ali Amin Gandapur, said, \u201cComparing your country to a bully like Israel isn\u2019t very smart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pointing out the possible reference to Small\u2019s book, he said it seemed like the prime minister read the book \u201con his way to New York\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Simplifying PM Kakar\u2019s remarks, PTI activist Virk Shahzaib posted on his X account, \u201cThe caretaker PM believes Pakistan is China\u2019s Israel\u2026 He claims Pakistan is to China what Israel is to the US.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1576183\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTo use any analogy that compares Pakistan and Israel is beyond condemnable and not understandable for any point of view,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1775902\">Absconding<\/a> PTI leader Hammad Azhar <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hammad_Azhar\/status\/1704926234025529423?s=20\">demanded<\/a> that the premier apologise and \u201ctake back his words\u201d, adding, \u201cTo compare Pakistan with Israel that established itself by forcibly taking possession of another peoples\u2019 land and sustained itself through nothing other than oppression and violence is an insult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, journalists and lawyers also chimed in on the ongoing discourse.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dawn\u2019s<\/em> US correspondent Anwar Iqbal asked on X: \u201cWhat does he want to say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>DawnNewsTV<\/em> host Adil Shahzeb, while using the original quote from the book, expressed surprise at PM Kakar\u2019s words.<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court lawyer Zahid F. Ebrahim said, \u201cI did not expect better from Mr. Kakar. But, I did expect better from [Foreign Minister] Jalil [Abbas] Jilani.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe caretaker FM (foreign minister) should have vigorously opposed this outrageously wasteful foreign jaunt by a caretaker PM,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Another lawyer, Dr Alizaan, clarified, \u201cHe is not talking about the responsibility of any state (Israel or Pakistan); rather, he is trying to establish that just as Israel is a blue-eyed child to the US, Pakistan is to China.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar was on Friday censured \u2014 mostly by PTI activists \u2014 for using \u201cshockingly poor language\u201d while describing China\u2019s strong ties to Pakistan by apparently referring to the US support enjoyed by Israel. The social media criticism comes a day after the premier made the said comparison when speaking at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/09\/22140923a0467a1.png?r=150617","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}