Islamabad:
Express tribune reported that amid growing tension after India’s decision to suspend the Pahlgam attack and India’s Indus Water Treaty, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif stepped to advise his brother, current Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, a diplomatic approach to reducing the growing crisis, on the need for a diplomatic approach, expressed the express tribunal.
After suspension of India’s Waters Treaty in view of the Pahgam attack, Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan from London to help his brother to help the Prime Minister.
After his arrival, The Express Tribune reported that Sharif had advised PM Shahbaz Sharif that he informed the PML-N supremo on the decisions made in the meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) in view of the suspension of IWT by India.
It was said that Sharif wanted the PML-N-Leaded coalition government to use all available diplomatic resources to restore peace between two nuclear-headed states, saying he was not eager to take an aggressive situation, the express tribun.
Earlier in 2023, Nawaz Sharif underlined the importance of having good relations with India and said that his government was out in 1999 as he opposed the Kargil war.
According to News International, Nawaz had said that PML-N always performed well but was always out of power.
“I want to know why my governments were overthrown in 1993 and 1999. Was this because we opposed the Kargil war,” Nawaz said.
Nawaz Sharif was the Prime Minister of Pakistan, when his government was uprooted in the coup on October 12, 1999. Last year, Nawaz also admitted that Pakistan had violated an agreement with India in 1999.
The former PM said, “On May 28, 1998, Pakistan conducted five nuclear tests. After that Vajpayee Saheb came here and entered into an agreement with us. But we violated that agreement … it was our fault.”
The agreement mentioned by Sharif was the “Lahore Declaration”, which he and the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee signed on 21 February 1999 with the goal of promoting peace and stability between India and Pakistan. However, soon after signing, Pakistani troops infiltrated the Kargil district in Jammu and Kashmir, causing the Kargil war.
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