Newsnomics AJAY ANGELINA reporter |
India wants “normal and unneighborly relation” with Pakistan and the onus was on Islamabad to create a conducive environment free from “terrorism and hostilities.”
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “India wants normal bilateral ties with Pakistan, adding that "it is incumbent upon them to create a conducive environment free from terrorism and hostilities. The onus is on Pakistan to take necessary steps in this regard" commented in an interview to Nikkei Asia while on his visit to Hiroshima, Japan for the G7 summit on Friday 19, 2023.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto had attended the SCO Foreign Ministers' meeting held in Goa, India
earlier this month but there were no bilateral talks between the two countries.
India-Pakistan relations have been frozen since 2019 when New Delhi changed the status of Jammu and Kashmir state, ended its special privileges and converted it into a federal territory.
Jammu and Kashmir is the state of territorial primarily between India and Pakistan arise after the partition of two nations in 1947. Both countries claimed the entirety of Jammu and Kashmir their own. It is still the cause of dispute and conflicts between the two nations that escalated into three wars between India and Pakistan and several other armed skirmishes
