ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed his desire to engage Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a TV debate.
Mr. Khan made the reflections during an interview with Russia’s state-run TV network Russia Moment on the dusk of his two-day visit to Moscow.
“ I would love to debate Narendra Modi on TV,” Mr. Khan said in response to a question during the interview recorded previous to the first visit to Russia by a Pakistani premier in over two decades.
He said he’d love to talk to his Indian counterpart and it would be great if differences were resolved through dialogue.
A news agency quoted Mr. Khan as saying that it would be great for over a billion people of the key if differences between the neighboring countries could be resolved through a debate.
Interestingly, Mr. Modi isn’t known to engage in Television debates and hasn’t held a formal news conference since coming to power in 2014.
Mr. Khan also expressed the stopgap that one day the Indian government would concentrate on pulling Indians out of poverty rather than fastening on racial superiority.
Mr. Khan recalled that when his party came into power in 2018, he tried to resolve the longstanding issue of Enthralled Kashmir with India through dialogue. Still, he rued that India didn’t respond appreciatively to his preludes.
India formerly used to be regarded as a temporal country has now been taken over by “ frenetic and racist testaments”, said Mr. Khan. “ What’s passing in India, isn’t what Indians are like, this isn’t India of Nehru and Gandhi,” he said.
In response to a question, the high minister said he’d love to emulate China in terms of bringing people out of poverty.
The high minister said that developing countries learned from developed societies and his country was doing the same. “ The nation we can learn the most from is China.”
Ukraine disagreement
Talking about Russia’s conflict with the West over Ukraine, the high minister said he didn’t believe that there was a military result to any disagreement.
The developing world was formerly facing a fiscal extremity because of the Covid-19 epidemic and it would face further problems due to the said conflict.
Mr. Khan prompted the top leaders of the countries involved to resolve the issues as soon as possible.
In response to a question, the high minister said that lesser cooperation between the US and China and “ for that matter indeed with Russia will profit humanity much further than a conflict”.
Islamabad enjoys good relations with Moscow and wants to further strengthen them, said the premier.
He also expressed the stopgap that warrants on Iran would be lifted soon. Iran could give gas at low rates but because of the warrants Pakistan, which is running out of gas reserves, is unfit to buy it.
Mr. Khan also said that Pakistan’s North-South Gas Project with Russia had faced detainments because of the warrants assessed on a Russian company.
