Kashmir issue: Imran Khan accuses media of “double standard”

Islamabad: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan accused international media Friday of a “double standard”, saying news outlets give more prominence to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong than to the situation in Kashmir.
Double standard Khan, who returned this week from a trip to Beijing, also told a crowd of roughly 300 people at a rally in Islamabad that Hong Kong “is a part of China, but this (Kashmir) is a disputed territory”.
“The story of barbarism (in Kashmir) hardly gets reported in international media,” Khan said.
“So I want to put this double standard in front of the world.” Unrest in Hong Kong Hong Kong has been battered by 18 consecutive weekends of unrest, fanned by widespread public anger over Chinese rule and the police response to protests.
While for more than two months now Kashmir has been under a security lockdown after New Delhi scrapped the region’s semi-autonomous status.