Flipping sides! Pakistan PM Imran Khan says ‘chances of peace talk better if BJP wins the elections’

Islamabad, April 10: As India gears up for the general election which is due to begin on Thursday, political twists and turns would definitely impact on international platform.

The India-Pakistan relation has always raised eyebrows and intensified the curiosity among the masses. A reflection of the same was seen after in an interview given by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. In the interview Pak PM Imran Khan said that he thinks there may be a better chance of peace talks with India if PM Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins the general election.

Imran Khan said that if the next Indian government were led by the opposition Congress party, it might be too scared to seek a settlement with Pakistan. This comes in the way of particularly discussing over the disputed Indian-controlled Kashmir. He further asserted that he seeks a meaningful dialogue on Kashmir issue with the BJP if it comes to power.

Bhartiya Janata party in its manifesto had mentioned scrapping Article 370 which might have rang an alarming bell for Pakistan. On terrorism, the Pakistani PM said that his country is fully committed to dismantling all terror networks and militias in the country. He would do this with the full support of the military establishment and added that this will also apply to groups involved in Kashmir. Speaking ahead on the issue of Kashmir, PM Imran Khan said Kashmir was a political struggle and there was no military solution. Adding further he said that Kashmiris suffered if armed militants from Pakistan came across the border.

Relations between Pakistan and India, which have fought three wars since gaining independence from Britain in 1947, two over Kashmir, reached a crisis point in February after a suicide bombing killed 40 Indian paramilitary police in Kashmir.

Islamabad denied responsibility for the Feb. 14 attack, which was claimed by Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed, but the bombing prompted India to carry out a cross border air strike against what it said was a militant training camp in Pakistan. Pakistan responded with air strikes of its own.