We fought 3 wars with India Pakistan has learned its lesson says Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif's message to PM Modi
By Lokmat English Desk | Published: January 17, 2023 04:00 PM2023-01-17T16:00:00+5:302023-01-17T16:00:00+5:30
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Pakistan's Prime Minister recently said that the country has learned its lesson, and wants to live in peace with India, provided that the "genuine problems" between the neighbours are resolved.
In an interview aired on 16 January 2023, Shehbaz Sharif said that Pakistan and India have had 3 wars, and they only brought misery, poverty, and unemployment.
Sharif told Dubai's Al Arabiya TV that he wants "serious and sincere" talks with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on "burning points like Kashmir".
"My message to the Indian leadership and Prime Minister Modi is that let's sit down on the table and have serious and sincere talks to resolve our burning points like Kashmir.
It is up to us to live peacefully and make progress or quarrel with each other and waste time and resources," Sharif said.
'“We have fought three wars with India and each time it has brought more destitution, poverty and unemployment to the people. We have learned our lesson and we want to live in peace,” he added.“We are ready to solve our problem. My message to Prime Minister Narendra Modi is that let’s sit and talk. Pakistan does not want us to spend our resources in making bombs and gunpowder.”Pointing out that both India and Pakistan are nuclear powers, Shehbaz Sharif said that war is not good for anyone.
“We are nuclear powers, armed and if God forbid war breaks out, who will live to tell what happened,” he said.
Pakistan has fought three full-scale wars and a limited conflict with India and has lost every time. The first war started in October 1947, only a couple of months after India gained independence and endured a bloody partition that led to the formation of Pakistan. The second war between India and Pakistan took place in 1971. In this war, Pakistan had got such a humiliating defeat from which it has not been able to recover till date. In the war of 1971, Pakistan was divided into two pieces and Bangladesh was formed. During this war, India rejected the pressure of a superpower like the US. More than 90,000 soldiers of Pakistan had surrendered in the war. After this Indian military strategy was praised all over the world. The third war was waged by Pakistan in Kargil in 1999. During this, Pakistani soldiers crossed the Line of Control (LoC) during the winter and established bases on several peaks that had been temporarily vacated by the Indian Army. Later, the Indian Army captured all the posts set up by the Pakistan Army in a series of bloody clashes.
