'World Could Be In Danger': On Nuclear War With India, Imran Gives 'pakistan-Never-First' Assurance

Hours after Khan’s statement, Pakistan’s foreign ministry said that his comment was being taken “out of context”, and the country had there was “no change in their nuclear policy”.Pakistan will never ever start a war with India, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday, amid tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors over Kashmir. We will never ever start the war. Both Pakistan and India are nuclear powers and if tension escalates the world will face danger, Khan said while addressing a gathering of the Sikh community at the Governor’s House here. Khan said that war is not a solution to any problem.”I want to tell India that war is not a solution to any problem. The winner in war is also a loser. War gives birth to the host of other issues.

Hours after Khan’s statement, Pakistan’s foreign ministry said that his comment was being taken out of context”, and the country had there was no change in their nuclear policy”.India has not been engaging with Pakistan since an attack on the Air Force base at Pathankot in January of 2016 by Pakistan-based terrorists, maintaining that talks and terror cannot go together. Early this year, tensions flared up between India and Pakistan after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) killed 40 CRPF personnel in Kashmir’s Pulwama district.