Shehbaz Sharif, nonetheless, raked up the Kashmir challenge throughout his victory speech in Nationwide Meeting.
Islamabad:
Pakistan’s newly-elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for felicitating him on his re-election.
Sharif, 72, took the oath as prime minister of Pakistan on Monday, assuming the cash-strapped nation’s reins for a second time, practically a month after an inconclusive election marred by allegations of vote rigging.
“Thanks @narendramodi for felicitations on my election because the Prime Minister of Pakistan,” Sharif mentioned in a put up on X.
Thanks @narendramodi for felicitations on my election because the Prime Minister of Pakistan 🇵🇰
— Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) March 7, 2024
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Modi congratulated Shehbaz on taking oath because the twenty fourth prime minister of Pakistan.
“Congratulations to @CMShehbaz on being sworn in because the Prime Minister of Pakistan,” Modi posted on X.
In his victory speech within the Nationwide Meeting quickly after he was elected because the twenty fourth prime minister and for a second time since 2022, Sharif mentioned his authorities wouldn’t enable the nation to turn into a part of some “nice sport” and would keep cordial relations with neighbours primarily based on the rules of equality.
“We are going to preserve ties with neighbours on the premise of equality,” he mentioned.
Sharif, nonetheless, raked up the Kashmir challenge and equated it with Palestine.
Ties between India and Pakistan strained after a terror assault on the Pathankot Air Pressure base in 2016 by terror teams primarily based within the neighbouring nation.
The connection nosedived after India’s warplanes pounded a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist coaching camp deep inside Pakistan on February 26, 2019, in response to the Pulwama terror assault by which 40 CRPF jawans have been killed.
The relations deteriorated additional after India introduced the withdrawal of the particular powers of Jammu and Kashmir and the bifurcation of the state into two union territories in August 2019.
India has repeatedly informed Pakistan that Jammu and Kashmir “was, is and shall endlessly” stay an integral a part of the nation. New Delhi has informed Islamabad that it needs regular neighbourly relations with it in an setting freed from terror, hostility and violence.
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