India constantly blaming Pakistan over Kashmir, says Imran Khan assuring steps to resolve the issue

Claiming victory amid allegatins of rigging, he addressed his first press conference after getting an edge over his opponent political parties in the national elections. Khan said: "Kashmir remains our biggest contention. The human rights violations over 30 years; and the people of Kashmir have suffered massively."

Khan believes bilateral talks with India might resolve the issue. He said: "The leadership of Pakistan and India now need to come to the table to resolve this and end the blame games. We are stuck at square one.

"If India comes and takes one step towards us, we will take two steps toward them. Right now it is one sided where India is constantly just blaming us," said Khan whose party PTI is short of an overall majority and might need coalition partners.

India has been blaming Pakistan for exporting terrorism through the border areas of Kashmir. Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had even said that talks and terrorism can't go together.

Khan has also alleged that the Indian media portrayed him as a "villain" during the election weeks. "As far as India is concerned; I was disappointed with how Indian media portrayed me in the past few weeks. As a villain. I am that Pakistani who has travelled through India because of my cricket."

As counting of votes for Pakistan's general elections continued on Thursday, Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) maintained a strong lead over jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League, bagging 119 seats, only 18 away from the majority mark (137).

PML-N trails far behind with 61 and the PPP-Parliamentarians (PPP-P) is at third spot with 40 seats.

Reacting to his victory, the PTI chairman said: "Allah has given me an opportunity to serve the country so that I can implement my manifesto which I had thought 22 years ago."

Apart from India, Khan has tried to paint an image of his foreign policies with other nations as well.

Envisioning a balanced policy with the US, Khan said: "As far as America is concerned, we want to work on a policy that is mutually beneficial. Not a One way relationship. There needs to be balance."

Aiming an open-border system with Afghanistan, the PTI leader said: "We want to work in every possible way to ensure peace in Afghanistan. I would love an open border system like the EU with Afghanistan."

"Afghanistan is that neighbour of ours that has seen the most human misery and damage in the name of wars. The people of Afghanistan need peace, and Pakistan wants peace in Afghanistan."

Acknowledging foreign policy as a problem for Pakistan, Khan said he aims to improve relations with China.

"We will strengthen and improve our relations with China. We want to work towards success of CPEC. We also want to send teams to learn poverty alleviation from China. How to lift our most poor who can’t even eat two meals a day."

While he took on India, Khan spared China from his attacks as the PTI leader heaped praises upon Beijing over its commitment towards curbing corruption.

Khan said: "The second thing we can learn from China is how they curbed corruption and set the example that corruption does not pay."

Apart from referring to a number of works which he wants to do as the Prime Minister, Khan said he will not avail the government house to stay, rather convert it into "public spaces".

"The prime minister house, a palace... It will be embarassed going and living there. Our government will decide what we will do with the PM house. We want to turn it into an educational or public institution."

Khan also mentioned that curbing corruption and strengthening laws will be one of the top priorities of his newly-elected government. In this case, Khan said his own people should not be spared from the eyes of law.

If the polling ends with the victory for Imran, he could very well be joining a rare group of former sportspersons who have gone on to hold important political positions in their country.

Referring to his decision to join politics, the PTI chariman said: "I came to politics to uplift my country which has gone down due to the collapse of government machineries."

"When I was a young, my country was doing well, but later it has gone down," he said.