Islamabad. Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has expressed hope that relations with the neighboring country will improve after the general elections in India. A few days before Asif’s remarks, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had said in Singapore that Pakistan was sponsoring terrorism on an almost ‘industrial level’ and that India was no longer in the mood to ignore terrorists, so it would ‘now Will not ignore this problem.
Speaking to reporters outside the Parliament House in Islamabad, Asif said on Monday, ‘Our relations with India can improve after the elections.’ He said that bilateral relations between the two countries have their own ‘background’. Elections for 543 Lok Sabha seats in India will be held in seven phases between April 19 and June 4.
India and Pakistan have a long history of strained relations, mainly due to the Kashmir issue as well as Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. In 2019, Pakistan downgraded its relations with India after India abolished the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
Talking about Afghanistan, Defense Minister Asif said that he visited Afghanistan with a high-level delegation and requested the Taliban government there to take effective steps to stop terrorism. According to the news of ‘Geo News’, Asif said that the solution proposed by Kabul is not practically possible.
Asif said, ‘Due to the fluctuations in the attitude of the interim government of Afghanistan towards Pakistan, our options for our neighbor are decreasing day by day.’ He said that Pakistan has always stood with Afghanistan, made sacrifices for them and even fought wars with them.
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first published : April 2, 2024, 1:47 pm IST
