NEW DELHI: If Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist captured alive in Mumbai, was indeed from Pakistan then it was time for Pakistan to take “very serious action” and let India know, said former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.” If a Pakistani name is being taken, a man who belongs to a place called Farid Kot or any other place, I think we should take very very serious notice of that. Not just notice, we should take serious action and we should let India know that, here, the action is now being taken against such elements. And it should also be a source of satisfaction to the Indian government, that yes, Pakistan is taking action,” Sharif said in response to media reports that Kasab was from Farid Kot, Pakistan.
“Pakistan must take action in a very transparent manner,” he said in an interview to Indian newsmagazine conducted at his farmhouse at Raiwind on the outskirts of Lahore.
In a significant proposal, he said there should be “a no first attack pact, a no first pact agreement, a no war pact between the two countries and this included both conventional and nuclear”. That, in his view, was the best for both countries and what they should be focusing on.
Dwelling on the troubled relations between the two countries, Sharif said if India had evidence to prove that Pakistani territory was used to export terror into Mumbai, “I think we should put our own house in order”.
Describing the “business of allegations and counter-allegations” between the two countries as devastating, Sharif said when he was prime minister “diplomats from both sides use to get beaten up and there was this tit for tat bashing”.
“I know that no civilized society will accept that - neither India nor Pakistan. These are the only two countries I have seen in my life, acting like this. We did move forward but after the Mumbai attacks, the relationship has moved backwards and that is very painful.
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