ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday asked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold serious and sincere talks with resolve burning issues, including Kashmir.
prime minister, in interview with Al Arabiya news channel, said: “My message to the leadership of India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is that let us sit down on table and have serious and sincere conversations with resolve our burning problems like Kashmir”.
Egregious violations of human rights have taken place in Kashmir. place day in and the day out, he said, adding that India had usurped any semblance of autonomy granted to Kashmiris under Article 370 of Constitution of India. Autonomy has been abolished in August 2019.
Minorities in He said that India was being persecuted, adding, “This must stop so that the message that India is ready to negotiate can be spread around the world.”
Shehbaz said that India and Pakistan are neighbors and they should live with together.
“It up to us to live peacefully and do progress or quarrel with each other and waste time and resources. We have three wars with India and it only brought more misery poverty and unemployment to people. We’ve learned our lesson and want to live in peace if we can resolve our genuine problems.
“We want reduce poverty, achieve prosperity and provide education, health care and employment for our people and not waste our resources on bombs and ammo, this is the message I want to give Prime Minister Modi,” he said. added.
“We are nuclear powers, armed to the teeth, and if God forbid war breaks out out who will live tell me what happened,” he said.
He said the guide of The United Arab Emirates may play important role unite India and Pakistan, adding that he will negotiate with Indian leadership with sincerity of goal.
He said that Saudi Arabia is a friendly and brotherly country, and they unique fraternal relations for centuries.
Before Pakistan came up and carved out of India, millions of Muslims had fraternal relations with Saudi Arabia, and they visited Mecca and Medina, he recalled.
The Prime Minister said that the United Arab Emirates is second home for millions of Pakistanis and how prime minister he made a successful visit to the country.
He said Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed was gentle brother and great supporter of Pakistan and wanted in people of Pakistan in progress and become prosperous. Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan was also a great friend of Pakistan and Pakistan was in his soul.
“Leadership of Pakistan and Persian Gulf countries decided to cooperate with together in Kingdom of trade and culture and project Islam as a religion of peace and avoid all forms of terrorism. We work together as strategic partners.”
prime minister said that Pakistan’s troubles and hardships would not have diminished without a tangible and substantial support of fraternal bay countries and Saudi Arabia who were reliable and trustworthy partners.
He said that the Pakistani people are resilient and courageous and they will persevere. on own legs, advancing trade and investments.
When asked, he said survival of in world lied in coexistence and what’s going on in Eastern Europe devastated world and commodity prices sky took off.
