Former High minister Imran Khan has sought the need for Pakistan to mend ties with India but made it clear that a good relationship would be insolvable while the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) remains in power.
In an interview with the British review The Telegraph on Monday, the PTI president exfoliate light on the profitable benefits that could be achieved if the two neighbours establish trade with each other.
“The benefits would be enormous,” he said, but also contended that New Delhi’s station on Indian Immorally enthralled Jammu and Kashmir(IIOJK) was the main manacle.
I suppose it’s possible but the BJP government is so strict, they have a nationalistic station on issues.
“It’s frustrating as you have no chance(for a resolution) as they whip up these nationalistic passions. And, once this genie of nationalism is out of the bottle it’s veritably delicate to put it back by again,” the former premier told The Telegraph.
“All we know is that they should have a road chart for the result of Kashmir. People in Pakistan can not accept that Kashmiris, who were given their right by the transnational community to choose their fortune through a plebiscite, have seen India steamroll this resolution.”
Imran added that Pakistan had to cool off its relationship with India when the neighbouring country took down the statehood of IIOJK.
Pakistan formally downgraded its trade relations with India in August 2019 to the position of Israel with which Islamabad has no trade ties at all. The decision had come as a response to India’s decision to drop Composition 370 of its constitution that granted engaged Kashmir a special status.
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Trade with everyone
The PTI chief went on to say that he’d seek to establish good relations with all the neighbours of Pakistan including Afghanistan, Iran, China, and the US if he’s tagged as the premier again.
“We really need a relationship with both countries. What I don’t want is another Cold War situation when we’re in blocks like in the last Cold War we have confederated with the United States,” he said.
“The total of Central Asia, Afghanistan, came out of our route,” Imran stated, adding that his main concern for Pakistan was how to lift 120 million out of poverty.
“The stylish way to do that’s if we can have a relationship with everyone, to trade with everyone, so we can help our population,” he concluded.
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