Earlier this week, Pakistan’s PM referred to as for talks with India to debate ‘burning issues such as Kashmir’.

Islamabad, Pakistan – Days after Pakistan supplied to carry talks with archrival India, New Delhi says the environment for dialogue shouldn’t be conducive but.

“India’s position has remained clear and consistent. We desire normal neighbourly relations with Pakistan in a conducive atmosphere that is free of terror, hostility, and violence,” Indian overseas ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi stated throughout a information briefing on Thursday.

Earlier this week, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called for talks with India to debate “burning issues such as Kashmir”, the Himalayan territory claimed in full by the 2 nuclear powers, who’ve dominated over components of it since 1947.

The South Asian rivals have fought two of their three full-scale wars over the disputed territory.

“I will give my word that we will talk to India with sincerity, but it takes two to tango,” Sharif stated throughout an interview with Al Arabiya information channel aired on Tuesday.

“My message to the Indian leadership and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is that let us sit down on the table and have serious and sincere talks to resolve our burning issues like Kashmir,” he added.

The Pakistani chief made the remarks throughout a go to to the United Arab Emirates, which he stated may play a job in resolving the variations between the 2 neighbours.

Relations between India and Pakistan worsened in 2019 when Modi’s Hindu nationalist authorities revoked Article 370 of the Indian constitution, which granted Indian-administered Kashmir partial autonomy.

New Delhi accuses Islamabad of offering logistical and monetary help to the armed rebels combating both for independence or for the merger of Indian-administered Kashmir with Pakistan.

Islamabad denies the allegations, saying it solely offers diplomatic help to the area’s wrestle for the proper to self-determination.

Jalil Abbas Jilani, Pakistan’s former overseas secretary, advised Al Jazeera that Sharif’s statements on the resumption of ties with India seemed to be “genuine” and that Pakistan want to have peace and stability within the area.

“Pakistan wants to resolve all disputes peacefully. The tension that exists between the two nations is not in either’s interests,” he stated.

Jilani stated “terrorism” is a matter of concern for each international locations equally and “only once the two sit together, they can amicably resolve the matter”.

However, the previous excessive commissioner of Pakistan to India, Abdul Basit, believes any headway within the relations between the 2 nations seems to be unlikely.

“Pakistan-India relations are in a cul-de-sac. Breaking deadlock and talks for the sake of talks will be more of the same,” he advised Al Jazeera.

In February 2021, the 2 international locations renewed a two-decade-old ceasefire pact alongside the 725km (450 miles) Line of Control, the de facto border that divides Kashmir between the 2 nations. But bilateral talks have stalled since India’s Kashmir transfer.

Vivek Katju, a former Indian ambassador, stated Sharif’s interview made it seem as if Pakistan was prepared to have interaction with India with out caveats earlier than a change in sentiment as proven by the PM workplace clarification.

“India’s position has remained consistent on relationship with Pakistan,” Katju advised Al Jazeera.

“What struck me was that whatever the Pakistani prime minister said in his interview, it was all nullified by the subsequent statement from his office, putting the condition of reversal of Article 370.”