A day after declaring that Kashmir was an “unfinished agenda of Partition”, Army chief General Raheel Sharif yesterday promised an improvement in relations with India but warned that Islamabad will not be intimidated by recent statements emanating from New Delhi.
After a joint session of parliament, Sharif told media that in the coming days there would be an improvement in relations with India, Geo News reported.
Sharif said there was no reason to be worried about the recent attitude exhibited by India as the Pakistani Army was capable of responding to any form of aggression.
The army chief’s statement follows a flurry of similar assertions that India was involved in stoking terrorism across Pakistan.
Recently, the military and civilian leadership have expressed serious concerns about India’s allegedly “nefarious designs”, with top government officials saying India was attempting to sabotage Pakistan’s $46bn agreement with China on a strategic economic corridor.
Meanwhile, Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain said yesterday that friendly relations with India on the basis of mutual confidence and co-operation is Islamabad’s priority but it wants India to resolve the Kashmir issue.
“We want that India must take steps to resolve the Kashmir issue according to the UN resolutions and aspirations of Kashmiri people to provide solid ground for peace in the region,” Geo News quoted Mamnoon Hussain as saying while addressing a joint parliamentary session.
He said India without reason suspended the dialogue process with Pakistan but “we understand that the resolution of issues between the two countries is possible only through dialogue”.
The president also called upon India to resume the dialogue process with sincerity and good intention for long lasting peace in South Asia.
He further said: “We will continue the fight against terrorism till the elimination of the last terrorist.”
Mamnoon Hussain went on to say that the nation stood united on the issue of flushing out terrorists at all costs.
The presidential address to the joint parliamentary session at the advent of a new parliamentary year is mandatory under the country’s constitution.
Earlier on Tuesday, federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar had also referred to Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s statement that terrorists had to be neutralised only through terrorists and termed it as an open admission that the neighbour was pursuing the policy of state-sponsored terrorism.
After a joint session of parliament, Sharif told media that in the coming days there would be an improvement in relations with India, Geo News reported.
Sharif said there was no reason to be worried about the recent attitude exhibited by India as the Pakistani Army was capable of responding to any form of aggression.
The army chief’s statement follows a flurry of similar assertions that India was involved in stoking terrorism across Pakistan.
Recently, the military and civilian leadership have expressed serious concerns about India’s allegedly “nefarious designs”, with top government officials saying India was attempting to sabotage Pakistan’s $46bn agreement with China on a strategic economic corridor.
Meanwhile, Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain said yesterday that friendly relations with India on the basis of mutual confidence and co-operation is Islamabad’s priority but it wants India to resolve the Kashmir issue.
“We want that India must take steps to resolve the Kashmir issue according to the UN resolutions and aspirations of Kashmiri people to provide solid ground for peace in the region,” Geo News quoted Mamnoon Hussain as saying while addressing a joint parliamentary session.
He said India without reason suspended the dialogue process with Pakistan but “we understand that the resolution of issues between the two countries is possible only through dialogue”.
The president also called upon India to resume the dialogue process with sincerity and good intention for long lasting peace in South Asia.
He further said: “We will continue the fight against terrorism till the elimination of the last terrorist.”
Mamnoon Hussain went on to say that the nation stood united on the issue of flushing out terrorists at all costs.
The presidential address to the joint parliamentary session at the advent of a new parliamentary year is mandatory under the country’s constitution.
Earlier on Tuesday, federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar had also referred to Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s statement that terrorists had to be neutralised only through terrorists and termed it as an open admission that the neighbour was pursuing the policy of state-sponsored terrorism.
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