‘Want good ties with India, but durable peace not possible without solving Kashmir’
PML-N leader Shehbaz Shariff was elected as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan through a voting in the country’s National Assembly, Dawn newspaper reported. After being elected as PM, Sharif said good has prevailed over evil and vowed to “resign and go home if conspiracy is proved in letter controversy”.
Ahead of the voting, Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) boycotted the procedure. PTI PM candidate Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced the boycott of voting to elect new Pakistan premier. The PTI lawmakers resigned from the Parliament and staged a walkout.
The joint Opposition – a rainbow of socialist, liberal and radically religious parties – named 70-year-old Sharif for the premier’s post while ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was named by Khan’s PTI as its candidate. The PTI has decided to withdraw its lawmakers from the National Assembly and launch a movement against the new upcoming government, which is likely to be headed by Sharif, who has served as the Chief Minister of Punjab three times.
Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said he wanted “good relations” India, but also brought up the Kashmir issue.
“We want good relations with India but a durable peace can’t be possible without Kashmir’s solution,” Shehbaz was quoted as saying by Reuters.
