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Updated November 30th, 2018 at 22:12 IST

Hollow on curbing terror, Imran Khan blames 'Indian mindset' and seeks talks after 2019 elections

Making unquantified references to the "Indian mindset" and promises about curbing terrorism emanating from his country's soil, Pakistan PM Imran Khan has said he will try to initiate talks with India after the 2019 general elections 

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Making unquantified references to the "Indian mindset" and promises about curbing terrorism emanating from his country's soil, Pakistan PM Imran Khan has said he will try to initiate talks with India after the 2019 general elections 

“If the Indian government cannot talk with Pakistan right now then we will try to initiate talks after the elections,” he said in a meeting with reporters from India who had travelled to Pakistan for the groundbreaking of the Kartarpur corridor. 

As per reports, in the interaction that was held on Thursday but only aired on Friday, he has also said that the issue between the two countries is not between the people but between the governments and added that that efforts for negotiation will continue.

Continuing his pitch for peace with India, even as his ministers made provocative statements, PM Khan also said it is not in Pakistan’s favour that its soil is used for attacks. He added that Pakistan’s mindset has changed but the Indian mindset hasn’t, going on to reiterate that Pakistan is in favour of peace.

Khan's statement comes just two days after Pakistani LeT terrorist Naveed Jatt, who was believed to have been behind the assassination of Rising Kashmir Editor-in-Chief Shujaat Bukhari, was neutralised by Indian forces.

READ: Naveed Jatt Accused In Shujaat Bukhaari Death Case, Killed

On Friday morning, only two days after Imran Khan's speech at the Kartarpur Corridor event, where he waxed eloquent about how the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan can be solved peacefully, his Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, exposed the country's duplicity. 

In a fiery speech, Qureshi even said, "We will take the flags of Pakistan and Kashmir together in our hands and hoist it in London. We will tell the whole world what is humiliation and what is human rights violation." 

READ: Two Steps? Pakistan Shows True Face Days After Peace Pitch, Imran's Minister Spews Kashmir Venom

Khan, at Kartarpur, had said that India and Pakistan need to move on and the only option is friendship, not war

 Both nations have nuclear weapons. So war obviously can't happen. Two nations that are nuclear-armed, it's madness to think of war. The person who thinks he can win a nuclear war is foolish. Everybody will lose that war. If nobody wants war then is there any other option but friendship?

READ: After Praising Navjot Singh Sidhu, Pak PM Imran Khan Defends Sidhu-Bajwa Hug. Read The Story Here

 

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Published November 30th, 2018 at 21:14 IST

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