In his address last week at the United Nations General Assembly, Nawaz Sharif had proposed a four-point formula to improve ties with India. (Reuters photo)
India and Pakistan should "live like good neighbours" and work out differences including over Kashmir through talks, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said.
"I raised the issue of Kashmir in the UN with courage and spoke out my heart (over the issue). I also gave a proposal to India to improve ties with Pakistan," Mr Sharif said today speaking at the Governor's House in Lahore.
"We (Indian and Pakistan) should live like good neighbours and find out a solution to the Kashmir issue," he said.
"I spoke the truth while looking into their eyes. The UN should realise itself and implement its resolution on Kashmir," he said.
In his address last week at the United Nations General Assembly, Mr Sharif had proposed a four-point formula to improve ties with India.
He had proposed demilitarisation of Kashmir, immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Indian troops from Siachen, resumption of composite dialogue and formalisation of the border ceasefire.
But naming it as a perpetrator of terror and declaring that terror attacks should stop before talks between the two nations can begin, India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had strongly rebuked the stand.
She said the mastermind behind the Mumbai terror attacks are walking free. "New attacks are taking place. Recently we have caught two Pakistani terrorists alive," she said. "These terror attacks are meant to destabilise India and legitimise Pakistan's illegal occupation of parts of Jammu and Kashmir."
India does not have four points, it has only one, she said. "Give up terrorism and we will sit and talk."