Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif

Pakistan’s PMO has issued a “clarification” on prime minister Shehbaz Sharif’s assertion over talks with India on Kashmir.

The transfer comes hours after Sharif in an interview stated “Pakistan has learnt a lesson and wants to live in peace with India.”

Taking to Twitter, Pakistan PMO stated, “the prime minister has repeatedly stated on record that talks can only take place after India has reversed its illegal action of August 5, 2019. Without India’s revocation of this step, negotiations are not possible.”

On 5 August 2019, Article 370 which gave ‘special status’ to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was scrapped.

India’s determination evoked a robust response from Pakistan, which downgraded diplomatic ties and expelled the Indian envoy.

The assertion by Pakistan PMO is in distinction to what Sharif had stated earlier in an interview with the Dubai-based Al Arabiya information channel on Monday.

Pakistan has learnt a “lesson” and need to stay in peace with India, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has stated, emphasising that the 2 neighbours shouldn’t waste their assets on bombs and ammunition.

“We have three wars with India and it only brought more misery, poverty and unemployment to the people,” Sharif stated.

My message to the Indian management and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is that allow us sit down on the desk and have critical and honest talks to resolve our burning issues like Kashmir,” he stated.

He stated Pakistan and India are neighbours and must “live with each other.” “We have learnt our lesson and we want to live in peace provided we are able to resolve our genuine problems. We want to alleviate poverty, achieve prosperity, and provide education and health facilities and employment to our people and not waste our resources on bombs and ammunition, that is the message I want to give to Prime Minister Modi,” Sharif stated.

Meanwhile, India has at all times maintained that “talks and terror” can not go hand in hand.

New Delhi in November final 12 months had additionally lashed out at Islamabad for raking up the problem of Kashmir throughout a United Nations debate terming it as “desperate attempts to peddle falsehoods”.

With inputs from businesses

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