Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Extends Olive Branch to India

Kartarpur (Pakistan): Reaching out to India in a big way, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said it will be madness to think of war between the two nuclear-armed states and that friendship was the only option even as he asserted that the Army and political leadership in Islamabad were on the same page on improving ties with New Delhi. He was at his conciliatory best offering an olive branch saying if India takes one step, Pakistan will take two steps. However, Khan raked up the Kashmir issue saying that it was the only festering problem between the two countries and even that can be solved with “boldness and decisiveness” of political leadership. Referring to the strained relations between the two countries, he said a lot of mistakes have been made in the past by both the sides and said “the past is for learning lessons”. (IANS)