KARTARPUR: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wedenesday said it will be madness to think of war between the two nuclear-armed states and that friendship was the only option even as he asserted that the Army and political leadership in Islamabad were on the same page on improving ties with New Delhi.
Using the occasion of ground-breaking ceremony for the long-awaited Kartarpur Corridor to reset his country’s troubled ties with India, he was at his conciliatory best offering a olive branch saying if India takes one step, Pakistan will take two steps.
However, Khan raked up the Kashmir issue saying that it was the only festering problem between the two countries and even that can be solved with “boldness and decisiveness” of political leadership.
The function for the Kartarpur Corridor that will link Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur in India with Kartarpur Gurdwara, where Guru Nanak Dev spent the last 18 years of his life, was attended by Union Minister Harsmirat Kaur Badal and Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, a long-time friend of Khan from their cricketing days.
It was symbolic of elements that mark the fragility in Indo-Pakistan relations with the presence of Pakistan Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa and Khalistani activist Gopal Singh Chawla, a Pakistani national, on a day India declared that it will not participate in Saarc summit in Islamabad as talks and terror cannot go together.
Referring to the strained relations between the two countries, he said a lot of mistakes have been made in the past by both the sides and said “the past is for learning lessons”.
“Both India and Pakistan are nuclear armed. There cannot be a war. Thinking of war is madness, thinking of winning is also madness as both will lose. There is no other option except friendship,” Khan said.
“Today, where India and Pakistan stand, it has been going on for the last 70 years. Till the time we break the barriers of the past, blame game and pointscoring will continue. We take one step forward and go back two steps. We have not displayed firmness to improve our relationship.”
Khan said that genuine political leadership should think of removing poverty. “If this happens, the two countries should move forward.
“I want a strong relationship with India… We both can move ahead. If India takes one step, we will take two for friendship.”
Khan, who took over as Prime Minister earlier this year, referred to deep concerns in India that the Army drives Pakistan’s relationship with India and does not want normalcy in the ties.
“I am telling you our Army and political parties are on the same page. We want to move forward. We want a civilised relationship. There is one issue and that is Kashmir. Man has reached moon. Can’t we solve our one issue? There is no such thing which cannot be solved. Both the countries need leadership with determination. Once the relationship improves, see what potential it offers to the two countries.”
He said if the borders between the two countries were open, it will boost trade and bring prosperity.IANS
“Olive Branch” Ha Ha. What a joke
Pakistan needs a handout, a nation under FATF, Debt Trap, caged in barbed wires at border and watched by soldiers by Iranians, Afghans, Indians with shoot at sight orders if a Pakistani crosses border illegally, going around asking for money, begging openly asking donations from its own citizens.. is extending Olive Branch to India.
India wants Kashmir as it is. Nobody outside valley gives a damn about it. So called Kashmir Azadi is Muslim disease which world has seen in Myanmar,Chechnya, Serbia, China, India, Nigeria, Thailand, Isreal.
World sees Pakistan as motherload of Islamic Terrorism. Every country in the world including Afghanistan, Iran, China sign just one treaty with Pakistan ..anti Terrorism.
Pakistan is asking for loans then how will it pay back..and paying interest is haram.
Kashmir..so called thousands cuts gives India $50 annual defense budget..brings in thousands of security jobs, technology transfer, hitech factories. What are you talking about? What are these Rafeal and Bofors deals. Politicians, Media love it…curruption dollars, media stories and politics. This defense budget will soon become $100 Billions in next ten years. All this contribute to GDP, Growth.. yes it does. Kashmir also offers India its main current politics issue…. MUSLIM and both Ruling and Opposition Political Parties love it. Their politics is based on Muslims..no other issur matters that much.
Kashmir conflict confined to few distrcts in Kashmir, self generated by Pakistan and Muslim generates dividends to all ..india GDP, Political Parties, Increase Indian clout because of Defense spending.
Tell Pakistan, there are two aspects of Kashmir conflict….
1) Kashmiri Muslims
2) Kashmiri Land.
Even if Allah comes down and start dancing, still Pakistan will not get Kashmiri Land from India.
Kashmiri Muslim are useless for us and live on subsidy. Kashmiri Muslim without Kashmiri Land are useless to Pakistan also as they they are not Punjabi. No body in Pakistan Kashmir speaks Kashmiri… everybody speaks Punjabi.
Pakistan can take its olive branch and shov it you know where.
Hate bhakts will never understand good brotherly neighbourly relations amongst people or nations!
What relationship one can possibly have with next door Begger, Quran Brain Washed 24/7 Jihadi, Caged Nation?
Often we are told Muslims Bravados in History.. well we were not there then. In today’s History, we do see Muslim starting conflicts in the name of Islam, Jihad, Azadi all over world then we all know what happens to them.
KAFIRS RETALIATE.
Mosques loudspeakers are used by Mullas to incite youth to throw stone at soldiers with Guns and what is Mullah doing..he is making appointments for Halala when Muslim youths are facing pallet guns.
See your Mirwaiz.. why he is not in Tihar Jail when a stone thrower is sent to jail. Mirwaiz comes out in clean suit, nicely trimmed beard as if he has come from beauty Parlor.
No sympathy for Muslims or Muslim nuisance….not in India and not anywhere.
What is Pakistan..Trump said it many times and may say it again on Jan 1,2019.
Pakistan is found of saying Talks with Parity.. Well credit goes to India, India has got Pakistan where it wants, today Pakistan spend all most entire its budget on paying Interest on foreign Loans and maintaining Army.
As Modi said recently, Pakistan who wanted to bomb India, today ha its PM going from a Nation to Nation begging for money and offering Halala priviages in return.
If talks are held today, Pakistan will wash its hands off Kashmir.. just needs a some face saving of talks.
For Indians, Kashmiri Muslims must leave India and move to Pakistan if any meaningful talks and peace is to achieved. Indian masses will otherwise not appove any other deal with Pakistan.
Does Pakistan has brotherly nation with any of its neighbors…
Afghans, Iran whose abducted soldiers are still in Pakistan and Iran has threatened to military operations in Pakistan. China.. hundreds of Wives and Children of Pakistanis who had married to Uyghur women are Chinese Prison and undergoing daily Halala and their Children in Chinese orphanage.
Pakistan has hand picked jihadi Prime Minister who wanted to and open and franchise Talibans. What are you talking about. Pakistan is a nation with barbed wire all around its border even Iran and Afghan, Iran, India soldiers at Border with clear instructions to shoot any Pakistani intruder on sight. You are delusional..
Pakistan is a nation begging from its own citizens asking for donations. Entire budget of Pakistan goes to pay interest on loans and keeping military. Each mortar they fire costs hundreds of dollars.
Hate bhakts will never understand good brotherly neighbourly relations amongst people or nations!
But for sure, effort and brotherhood work more than constant negativity and hatred we have seen in last 4 years in India!
uri attack tere bua ne karaya tha ? … this is how ignorant indian muslims have become towards the protectors of our nation