Pakistan’s economic implosion has had some odd political repercussions, including an olive branch for forever enemy India. While on a fund collection drive in west Asia to save Pakistan’s collapsing economy, Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif made an emotive, headline-grabbing peace overture to India, claiming that his country had learnt its lessons from three wars and now wanted to live in peace with its neighbour.

His message to PM Modi was to ‘sit down on the table and resolve our burning problems including Kashmir’. While he referred to the revocation of Article 370 and ‘mishandled’ minorities in India, he placed no conditions on a dialogue, which he asked ‘brotherly’ UAE to facilitate.

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