According to a media report on Friday, Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has expressed his need for peaceable relations with India based mostly on the rules of “equality, justice and mutual respect” and determination of the Kashmir concern.
Sharif additionally urged the worldwide group to play a “facilitating role” in making certain lasting peace and stability in South Asia, it mentioned, amid the freezing of bilateral ties over the Kashmir concern and cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan.
The Dawn newspaper quoted the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) as saying that Sharif expressed these views throughout a gathering with Australia’s newly-appointed High Commissioner to Pakistan, Neil Hawkins, on Thursday.
“Pakistan seeks peaceful relations with India based on the principles of equality, justice and mutual respect. In this context, a just and peaceful resolution of the J&K dispute in accordance with the relevant UNSC resolutions and the wishes of the Kashmiri people was inevitable,” Sharif mentioned.
“The international community will have to play a supporting role in this regard, as it was necessary for lasting peace and stability in South Asia,” he mentioned.
India has repeatedly instructed Pakistan that it needs regular neighborly relations with Islamabad in an surroundings free from terror, hostility and violence. India has mentioned that it’s the duty of Pakistan to create an surroundings free from terrorism and enmity.
Bilateral relations worsened in August 2019 after India introduced the withdrawal of Jammu and Kashmir’s particular powers and bifurcation of the state into two union territories.
India has repeatedly instructed Pakistan that Jammu and Kashmir “was, is and always will be” and can stay an integral a part of the nation. It additionally suggested Pakistan to simply accept the truth and cease all anti-India propaganda.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
