Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday urged Indian leadership to sit together and make a new beginning in its ties with Pakistan in order to resolve all outstanding issues between the two countries peacefully.
“Let us make a new beginning. Let us sit together to resolve all outstanding issues in a friendly manner and in a peaceful atmosphere,” he said in a message telecast on a private channel.
The prime minister said before 1947, people of Pakistan and India used to live together, adding that now 65 years of independence have passed and both countries needed to improve their ties for betterment and prosperity.
“We must become good friends. Hold each other’s hands. We must sit together with an open and clean heart,” he said.
Nawaz addressed the people of India, “We have a lot of love and affection for you and we must become good friends.”