INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Pakistan PM said his country and India being neighbours, there was no choice but to live with each other.Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif
channel Al Arabiya, said India and Pakistan being neighbours had no choice but to live with each other
"It is up to us to live peacefully and make progress or quarrel with each other, and waste time and resources
We have had three wars with India and it 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 resolve our genuine problems," he said.Sharif said that the
Pakistan Muslim League (N) government wanted "to alleviate poverty, achieve prosperity, provide education, health facilities and employment
to our people, and not waste our resources on bombs and ammunition"."This is the message I want to give to PM Modi," he said.'Shameful for a
nuclear power to beg', says Pak PM SharifSharif said it was no secret that the neighbours were nuclear powers and armed to the teeth
"God forbid, a war breaks out, who will live to tell what happened?"Referring to the interview, a spokesperson for the PM's office said
Sharif had consistently maintained that Pakistan and India must resolve their bilateral issues through dialogue
"However, the PM has repeatedly stated on record that without India's revocation of its step on Kashmir, negotiations are not possible," he
tweeted.Home minister Rana Sanaullah weighed in soon after, saying the main prerequisite for negotiations with India was "the revocation of
its illegal step on August 5, 2019, which stripped the Valley of its legitimate status".
