New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has asserted that India and Pakistan should sit at a table and resolve the Kashmir issue as three wars with India have brought more misery, poverty and unemployment to the people. . Sharif recently said in an interview to a news channel, “My message to the Indian leadership and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is that let us sit across the table and have serious and honest talks to resolve burning issues like Kashmir.” On rights violations and persecution of minorities in Jammu and Kashmir, Sharif said, “It should stop so that a message goes across the world that India is ready for talks.”
“India and Pakistan were neighbors and they have to live with each other. It is up to us whether we live in peace and progress or fight with each other and waste time and resources. We had three wars with India And it has only brought more misery.” poverty and unemployment to the people. We have learned our lesson and we want to live in peace provided we are able to solve our real problems,” he told Dubai-based Al Arabiya TV.
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In a message to his counterpart PM Narendra Modi, the Pak PM said, “We want to reduce poverty, achieve prosperity and provide education and health facilities and employment to our people and reduce the burden on bombs and ammunition.” Don’t want to waste your resources, this is the message I want to give to Prime Minister Modi.”
He said, “We are nuclear powers, armed to the teeth and if God forbid war breaks out, who will live to tell what happened.”