File photo of Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif | Photo Credit: AP
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for “serious and serious talks” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on “burning issues like Kashmir”. in an interview in dubai al arabia tvMr Sharif said Pakistan had learned its lesson after three wars with India and asserted that it now wanted peace with its neighbour.
“My message to the Indian leadership and Prime Minister Modi is that let’s sit at the table and have a serious and honest conversation to resolve our burning points like Kashmir. It is up to us whether we live in peace and progress or fight with each other Quarrel and waste time and resources,” Mr Sharif said.
In an interview with a Dubai-based Arabic news channel, Pakistan’s prime minister said, “We have had three wars with India, and they have only brought more misery, poverty and unemployment to the people. We have learned our lesson, And we want to live in peace with India, provided we are able to solve our real problems,” Mr Sharif said in the interview aired on January 16.
Pakistan, which is grappling with public discontent due to severe economic crisis, flour crisis and fuel shortage, is also facing increasing cases of terrorist attacks by Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which has called for a ceasefire. was terminated. The country’s security forces at the end of last year.
“India is our neighbor, we are neighbours. Let’s be very clear, even though we are not neighbors by choice, we are forever and it is up to us to live in peace and progress or fight with each other quarrel and waste time and resources. It depends on us,” Mr Sharif said in the interview al Arabiya,
Sharif condemns abrogation of Article 370
Mr Sharif also raised the issue of Kashmir, saying Pakistan wanted peace but stressed that “what is happening in Kashmir should be stopped”.
,[India] Whatever autonomy was given to Kashmiris in their constitution-Article 370 usurped it. It should stop so that the message goes across the world that India is ready for talks and we are more than ready,’ Mr Sharif said.
In an interview uploaded on the Twitter handle of @AlArabiya_shows on Monday, the Pakistani leader said that both the countries have engineers, doctors and skilled labourers.
“We want to use these assets for prosperity and bring peace to the region so that both countries can develop.”
“Pakistan does not want to waste resources on bombs and ammunition. We are nuclear powers, armed to the teeth, and if God forbid, should war break out, who will live to tell what happened?” They said.
India had lashed out at Pakistan for raising the Kashmir issue during a UN debate in November last year, terming it a “desperate attempt to spread lies”.
(With inputs from ANI)