Islamabad: Pakistan Punjab's caretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi has said that Pakistan no longer considers India to be an existential threat. Speaking to CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar, Sethi said that India needs to realise that. Following is an excerpt from the interview:
Karan Thapar: The second aspect of the electoral campaign that is underway in Pakistan that is being picked up by India is the fact that Kashmir as an issue is actually missing. Is that because the subject has diminished in importance or because there are many other domestic issues that today are much more important and immediate?
Najam Sethi: Well you know Kashmir as an issue was missing in 2008 elections as well, let me say that. The reason for that is the peace process had kicked off first under Nawaz Sharif and then udner General Musharraf after he realised the error of his earlier ways which led to Kargil. So therefore, Kashmir is no longer an issue in that sense between India and Pakistan. It never was an election issue in the last election and it's not an election issue now.
Karan Thapar: So is that a sign that perhaps India should note that Pakistan is not obsessed with Kashmir in the way India previously thought about it?...
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