Even as there is a sense of positivity over Indo-Pak ties after the outcome of Pakistan’s polls, a former Pakistani diplomat on Tuesday expressed the view that a regime change is unlikely to bring any substantial shift in Islamabad's approach.
According to details, former Pakistani ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani said, "We will have a kind of a hug-hug, embrace-embrace, but no substantial changed attitude towards India.”
"I think Nawaz Sharif will move to have relatively better relations with India, at least at a superficial level, cricket matches, cultural exchanges, speaking to Punjabis in Punjabi, on the Indian side," Haqqani said in response to a question.
"But strategically, will he say, let's put Kashmir on the back burner and move forward? I don't see that happening. Will he say that we need to actually implement the Most Favoured Nation agreement that the PPP reached, which has been held in a sort of limbo by the military?" Haqqani questioned.