In this interview from January, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan predicted why India would resist his outreach for talks.
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00:00Two nuclear-armed countries should never think of sorting out their differences through war.
00:06It's suicide.
00:31Apart from this, Kartarpur, I have already asked the Indian government,
00:40specifically Prime Minister, that look, you come one step towards us, we'll come two steps towards you.
00:47Two nuclear-armed countries cannot think of war. They should not even think of cold war.
00:57Because cold war can turn hot at any stage and you do not take a chance when two countries have nuclear bombs.
01:04So, the only other option is to solve your issues through dialogue. Unfortunately, we have not been,
01:12we have been rebuffed so far by India. And I feel the reason is the Indian elections in April.
01:19And since the elections are coming in, I feel that this anti-Pakistan rhetoric gets votes to BJP which is Narendra Modi's party.
01:31And I have to say that I am disappointed. But again, I reiterate, two nuclear-armed countries should never think of sorting out their differences through war.
01:43It's suicide. And we will keep trying. The problem at the moment is also Kashmir.
01:50Apart from the Indian elections, it's Kashmir. Now, in Kashmir, the Indian brutality in the last year has just been mind-boggling.
02:00They have been killing, shooting at boys, blinding them with pellet guns. They have killed, I don't know, about 500 people in a year.
02:09And all they are doing is they are alienating the people of the Kashmir valley. And also, this hatred against the Indian
02:19because when they kill people, there is a reaction. So, what India is doing is
02:24it's palming off this reaction on Pakistan. Whereas, now, everyone recognizes,
02:29even the United Nations, they recognize that now it is an indigenous struggle.
02:34And the solution does not lie in brutality of your security forces. Solution lies in dialogue.
02:43And there is a solution there. But it is not with violence.