Batting for dialogue with India, Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has said that Kashmir issue has to be settled and “cannot keep boiling like it is”, the BBC reported.
“…peace with India over the disputed territory of Kashmirwould be “tremendous” for the wider region,” Khan was quoted as having said bythe BBC on Wednesday.
Khan, a former cricketer who became the prime minister eightmonths ago, said the nuclear-armed neighbours could only settle theirdifferences with dialogue.
Asked what message he wanted to send to Indian PrimeMinister Narendra Modi and his country, Mr Khan told the BBC’s John Simpsonthat the Kashmir issue “has to be settled” and “cannot keep boiling like it is”.
“The number-one tasks of the two governments is how are wegoing to reduce poverty and the way we reduce poverty is by settling ourdifferences through dialogue and there is only one difference – which isKashmir,” he said.
Khan, as per the report, said the Confrontation was verydangerous for both India and Pakistan. “Once you respond, no-one can predictwhere it can go from there,” he said.
If India had “come back and then again attacked Pakistan,Pakistan would have no choice but to respond,” he added. “So in that situation,two nuclear-armed countries, I just felt it was very irresponsible.”