As the nation marks Pakistan’s 64th Independence Day today (Sunday), PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday it was a great misconception that India had aggressive designs against Pakistan, adding that he found Indian leaders more eager to have peaceful relations with its nuclear neighbour.
Addressing a seminar, “Building Bridges in the Subcontinent”, arranged by SAFMA, Nawaz said India should be given a pat on the back for forming a commission to probe the Indo-Pak Kargil was, but in Pakistan everyone seems to be a hurdle in the formation of a commission to investigate the adventure. Nawaz’s address came shortly after an ISPR spokesperson said Pakistan still had a major threat from India.
Referring to the Lahore Declaration of 1999, he said “courageous Indian PM Vajpai” had proposed naming that year as the year of Kashmir dispute’s solution. Nawaz said he had wished to extend the motorway to Kabul and Tashkent on one side and Calcutta and Delhi on the other, but “I was shifted to Jeddah”. “We should compete in the economic, not arms’ race,” he said.
Nawaz doesn’t see India as an enemy
