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Sharif calls for warmer relations with India
Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif, seen as the front-runner in Pakistan’s election race, has said he would not allow militant groups to attack India from his country.
Sharif further said he would work to improve ties with New Delhi if elected.
“If I become the prime minister I will make sure that the Pakistani soil is not used for any such designs against India,” Sharif told CNN-IBN in an interview.
Sharif, who was prime minister twice in the 1990s, said it was time to improve ties between Islamabad and New Delhi.
“We have issues of course which need to be resolved and I think I can quote you a lot of examples where rivals or people opposed to each other, countries opposed to each other have resolved much difficult problems than we have,” he said.
Sharif, who has been critical of military meddling in civilian affairs, said he would call for a joint investigation of whether Pakistani intelligence agencies played any role in the Mumbai attack.
“I will take up this matter. Certainly this matter will have to be taken up,” said Sharif.
Despite recent strains, Pakistan and India’s relations have improved after nose-diving in 2008 when gunmen killed 166 people in Mumbai in a three-day rampage.
According to opinion polls, the PML-N is expected to win Saturday’s general election after successfully capitalising on the failure of the outgoing Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) to tackle everything from power cuts to a Taleban insurgency.
His path has, however, been made extremely rocky by the cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan who has become one of Pakistan’s most popular politicians and a formidable challenger to Sharif.
Most analysts believe that the upcoming polls will throw up a hung parliament requiring a coalition. Despite some acrimonious election rhetoric and mutual rivalry, Imran’s party could alone provide a stable coalition partner to the PML-N.
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