Islamabad: Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister and International Minister Ishaq Dar stated on Thursday that the federal government was making all-out efforts to perform the nation’s journey from solely being a nuclear energy to turning into an financial energy, Daybreak reported. When requested about enhancing ties with India, Dar stated: “It takes two to tango, cannot be a technique”. He known as upon India to “create an atmosphere to assist enhance the relations”.
Addressing a press convention in Islamabad, FM Dar gave a roundup of the federal government’s efforts to convey financial stability and improve Pakistan’s diplomatic footprints via bilateral and multilateral engagements with the newest one being the start of the nation’s two-year time period as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Safety Council for 2025-26.
India-Pakistan relations
The ties between India and Pakistan got here beneath extreme pressure after India’s warplanes pounded a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist coaching camp in Balakot in Pakistan in February 2019 in response to the Pulwama terror assault. The relations additional deteriorated after India on August 5, 2019, introduced the withdrawal of particular powers of Jammu and Kashmir and the bifurcation of the state into two union territories. Pakistan downgraded diplomatic ties with India after New Delhi abrogated Article 370.
India has been sustaining that it needs regular neighbourly relations with Pakistan whereas insisting that the onus is on Islamabad to create an atmosphere freed from terror and hostility for such engagement.
Pakistan’s then overseas minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited India in Could 2023 to attend an in-person assembly of the overseas ministers of the SCO nations in Goa. It was the primary go to of a Pakistani overseas minister to India in virtually 12 years.
Jaishankar’s Pakistan go to
Earlier final 12 months, Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had a visit to Pakistan to attend the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit. The much-debated occasion was held from October 15 to 16. It was the primary time in almost 9 years that India’s overseas minister travelled to Pakistan even because the ties between the 2 neighbours remained tense over the Kashmir challenge and cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan.
The final Indian International Minister to go to Pakistan was Sushma Swaraj. She had travelled to Islamabad to attend the ‘Coronary heart of Asia’ convention on Afghanistan held on December 8-9, 2015. Jaishankar, then India’s overseas secretary, was a part of Swaraj’s delegation.
Pakistan minister calls Jaishankar’s go to “optimistic”
Pakistan’s Data Minister Attaullah Tarar described Jaishankar’s go to to Islamabad as an “ice breaker”. He stated a pull-aside assembly befell between Jaishankar and Dar at a dinner reception hosted by Sharif at his residence for the SCO delegates. It was joined by Pakistan Inside Minister Mohsin Naqvi and the transient exchanges figured to enhancing cricketing ties, based on the PTI sources. Naqvi can be the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Earlier than departing from Islamabad, Jaishankar thanked PM Sharif and International Minister Dar in a submit on ‘X’ for the hospitality and courtesies and described the SCO conclave as “productive”. “Departing from Islamabad. Thank PM @CMShehbaz, DPM & FM @MIshaqDar50 and the Authorities of Pakistan for the hospitality and courtesies,” Jaishankar stated. Two officers additionally referred to the exterior affairs minister’s submit on ‘X’ to say that his go to went off nicely and that it created a “refreshing” atmosphere.
(With inputs from company)