Imran Khan says better possibility of peace with India if BJP wins general elections

Islamabad, Apr 10 Pakistan's Premier Imran Khan has said he accepts there might be a better chance of peace talks with India and settle the Kashmir issue if Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party BJP wins the general elections.

India will go to elections in seven stages starting from Thursday.

"Maybe if the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party)....wins, some kind of settlement in Kashmir could be reached," Khan told a small group of foreign journalists in an interview.

He said different parties would be afraid of right-wing backlash in case of settlement on the Kashmir issue.

Khan said Kashmir was the central issue between the two nations.

India keeps up that the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of the nation and Pakistan is in illegal occupation of a part of the state's territory.

Tensions flared up between India and Pakistan after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) killed 40 CRPF work force in Kashmir's Pulwama district on February 14.

In the midst of mounting shock, the Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out a counter-terror operation, hitting the greatest JeM training camp in Balakot, somewhere inside Pakistan on February 26. The following day, Pakistan Air Force countered and brought down a MiG-21 of every an ethereal battle and caught an IAF pilot, who was given over to India on March 1.

Khan has said that Pakistan was making a move against all aggressors bunches including the JeM.

Khan said that groups like the JeM were being disarmed under a serious drive to take out militancy from Pakistan.

"We have taken the religious schools of these groups under state control. It is first genuine exertion to incapacitate the activist outfits, he said.

Khan said action was taken because that it was critical for the fate of Pakistan. He additionally dismissed the feeling that Pakistan was constrained by the world to made such a move.