New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has mentioned that resolving Jammu and Kashmir dispute is crucial for peace and stability in South Asia.
Khan mentioned this in a reply to PM Narendra Modi’s letter to him final week extending greetings on Pakistan Day.
Modi had mentioned that India wishes cordial relations with Pakistan however an environment of belief, devoid of terror and hostility, is “imperative” for it.
In his letter, Khan wrote that saying creation of an “enabling environment” is crucial for a constructive and result-oriented dialogue to resolve all excellent points between Pakistan and India.
“We are convinced that durable peace and stability in South Asia is contingent upon resolving all outstanding issues between India and Pakistan in particular the Jammu and Kashmir dispute,” Khan wrote in the letter dated March 29.
Khan wrote that the individuals of Pakistan want peaceable, cooperative relations with all neighbours, together with India.
He additionally expressed greatest needs for the individuals of India in their battle in opposition to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier, the militaries of each nations introduced agreed to strictly observe all agreements on ceasefire alongside the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir and different sectors.
Weeks later, each PM Khan and Army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa made peace overtures in direction of New Delhi saying it was time for the 2 neighbours to “bury the past and move forward”.
Ties between India and Pakistan nose-dived after a terror assault on the Pathankot Air Force base in 2016 by terror teams primarily based in Pakistan.
Subsequent assaults, together with one on an Indian Army camp in Uri, additional deteriorated the connection.
The ties hit all-time low after India’s conflict planes pounded a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist coaching camp deep inside Pakistan on February 26, 2019, in response to the Pulwama terror assault in 2019 in which 40 CRPF jawans have been killed.
