IT is a great disappointment to see the Indian government’s negative response to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s offer of peace negotiations.

Imran Khan extended the talks offer to India in the interests of peace in the subcontinent but New Delhi has again stubbornly rejected the initiative.

Since their independence, Pakistan and India have not developed like other nations and relations between them have been plagued by hostility and suspicion.

Veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar once said that it was important for India to have friendship with Pakistan. The partition on lines of religion was wrong but let bygones be bygones, he added.

M. Mumtaz Hussain

Dubai

Published in Dawn, September 26th, 2018