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Making another pitch for talks, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan called for India to make a fresh start during his term to revive the dialogue process between the two countries. The talks have been stalled on the issue of terrorism for more than a decade. “It is not in Pakistan’s interest that our soil be used for terrorism against others,” Mr. Khan said here on Thursday. He was speaking to a group of Indian journalists invited to cover the Kartarpur corridor ground-breaking ceremony held on Wednesday. ‘Let’s not live in the past’ “I can’t be held responsible for the past. Hold me to account if I break my promises,” he said, asked about the pending investigations into the 1993 and 2008 Mumbai attacks and the case against Dawood Ibrahim and Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed. To a question on the status of the ban against Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistani Prime Minister clarified that the United Nations Security Council’s ban on him remained operational despite the Pakistan government’s ordinance lapsing in June. “There are UN sanctions against him and there is already a clampdown. On the rest of the 26/11 accused… The case remains sub judice [in trial],” he said. India and Pakistan must not keep focussing on the past, however, said Mr. Khan. “The past is for learning from, not for living in,” he said, as he described the disappointment he felt about the cancellation of Foreign Minister talks by New Delhi in September this year. “I tried to reach out to India from the very first day of my term,” Mr. Khan said. “But I got a bad response when the meeting at the UN was cancelled. We decided that we could wait for a response until elections in India.” He said the resolution of Kashmir remained the main concern for Pakistan. On Wednesday, the Ministry of External Affairs criticised his reference to Kashmir at the ground-breaking ceremony.
Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/imran-looks-for-fresh-start/article25628164.ece
