India's Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar's visit to Pakistan and participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting is expected to be a positive start in relations between the two countries. However, India's only condition for starting talks is that Pakistan closes the factory of terrorism from across the border. Nevertheless, former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has high hopes from Jaishankar's visit.
In a special conversation with India Today, Nawaz Sharif said that Jaishankar's visit to Islamabad will provide an opportunity to forget the past between India and Pakistan and solve the challenges of the future like energy and climate change. Nawaz Sharif stressed the need to restart the peace process between India and Pakistan. “We must start from where we stopped,” he said. Pointing to decades of strained relations, Sharif said, “75 years have passed like this. We should not waste the next 75 years like this.” Sharif also expressed his desire to attend the SCO meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said, “It would have been better if Modi had come. Neighbors cannot be changed. We should live like good neighbours.”
Let us tell you that during his visit to Pakistan, Jaishankar also met his Pakistani counterpart and close aide of Nawaz Sharif, Ishaq Dar. However, in his speech during the SCO meeting, Jaishankar indirectly targeted Pakistan over terrorism, extremism and separatism, saying, “If these 'three evils' continue to be involved in cross-border activities, they will affect trade, energy and Cannot promote flow and connectivity.”
Jaishankar said, “Our efforts will move forward only if we maintain our commitment to the Charter. This means that terrorism, extremism and separatism will have to be dealt with firmly. If cross-border activities involve terrorism, extremism and separatism, then They are unlikely to encourage trade, energy flows, connectivity and people-to-people contact.”
