We want solid relations with India: Pakistan PM Imran Khan

"We want solid relations with India," Khan was quoted as saying by Geo News at the event.

Khan, who took oath as the PM of the nation this year, said: "All of Pakistan's institutions are on the same page today."

Speaking on the relationship between India and Pakistan, Imran Khan said it is foolish to think that two nuclear-armed nations can go on war.

"It is foolish for anyone to think there can be war between two nuclear-armed countries as there is no winning for anyone. So, if there can be no war then what other way is there other than friendship?," the PM said.
 

He once again said that he is ready to move two steps ahead if India takes one step forward in developing the relationship between the two nations.

 "If India takes one step forward, we will take two steps forward," he said.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday laid the foundation stone at the ground breaking ceremony of the Kartarpur Corridor in presence of two Indian Ministers. 

The corridor will link Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, in Narowal district of Pakistan's Punjab province, the final resting place of Sikh faith's founder Guru Nanak, and the international border with India, facilitating Sikh pilgrims across the border.

Islamabad followed up India's decision to develop the Kartarpur corridor, last week and invited a few of Indian ministers to attend the ceremony in Pakistan.

Amid controversy over his visit, Punjab Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday through the Attari-Wagah joint check post, around 30 km from Amritsar, for Wednesday's foundation stone laying event.

At the ceremony, Sidhu seated next to Imran Khan. Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Punjab Minister for Food Processing Industries also shared the stage with them. 

Heaping praises on Imran Khan, whom he said "mere yaar, mere dildaar (my friend, my partner of heart), Sidhu said the Pak PM  has ended 70 years of wait."Long live India, long live Pakistan... there has been much of bloodshed...we need to change our thinking," Sidhu said while addressing the gathering. 

Sidhu had earlier said the Kartarpur Corridor has the potential to erase enmity between India and Pakistan and bring peace in the subcontinent. He heaped praises on "friend" Imran Khan for ensuring that the corridor became a reality.