Weeks after pleading for peace, Pakistan PM now tells 'India cannot look at us with evil eye'

Islamabad, Feb 06: Weeks after sending feelers saying it wants peace with India, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has now made a contradicting comment to his recent statement.

Sharif has claimed that India would not be able to cast an evil eye on his nuclear-armed country and warned that it has the "power to pullout the enemy's evil eye and crush it under its feet." "Pakistan is a nuclear power and India cannot look at us with an evil eye. We have the power to take it out and crush it under the feet," ANI quoted him as saying during an event in PoK.

He then raked up Kashmir issue by talking about giving political and economic stability "to get freedom for the Kashmiris." He said, "Pakistan will continue to lend moral, diplomatic and political support to the Kashmir cause, until its freedom from Indian oppression."

The amusing part of the story is that his comments on giving political and economic stability comes at a time when his country, which is on the brink of a Sri Lanka-type economic collapse, is facing multiple issues (inflation has reached 48-year high) and pleading before the IMF for funds.

"Yeh jo badi badi riyasatein hain jinhone jabhooriyat k libase odh rakhein hai.... toh jiski laathi uski bhais (All these big big nations who have cloaked themselves under democracy seems like they are doing whatever they wish to, unchallenged.)," he said.

Surprisingly, the Pakistan Prime Minister had pleaded for peace with India a few weeks ago.

In an interview with Dubai-based Al Arabiya TV, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that Pakistan had learnt its lesson after three wars with India and stressed that now it wanted peace with its neighbour.

He called for a "critical and honest talk" with his PM Narendra Modi on "burning points like Kashmir". "My message to the Indian leadership and Prime Minister Modi is that let's sit down on the table and have serious and sincere talks to resolve our burning points like Kashmir. It is up to us to live peacefully and make progress or quarrel with each other and waste time and resources," Sharif said.

"We have had three wars with India, and they have only brought more misery, poverty, and unemployment to the people." "We have learnt our lesson, and we want to live in peace with India, provided we are able to resolve our genuine problems," Sharif said in the interview.