India and Pakistan must talk, resolve their conflicts including Kashmir: Imran Khan

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Imran Khan said Tuesday that India and Pakistan must talk, and that that was the only way to move forward and resolve their conflicts. 

"To move forward Pakistan and India must dialogue and resolve their conflicts incl Kashmir," Khan tweeted. 

"The best way to alleviate poverty and uplift the people of the subcontinent is to resolve our differences through dialogue and start trading," he added. 

Khan was sworn in as Pakistan's new prime minister on Saturday. 

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In his first speech after he won the Pakistan election, Khan had called for better ties and trade with India, as also a resolution of the Kashmir dispute. 

Khan also thanked Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu for attending his swearing in. "He was an ambassador of peace & was given amazing love & affection by ppl of Pakistan," Khan tweeted. 

"Those in India who targeted him are doing a gt disservice to peace in the subcontinent - without peace our ppl cannot progress," Khan added. 

Sidhu has been embroiled in (needless?) controversy ever since he hugged Pakistan Army Chief Qamar Bajwa at Khan's swearing-in. It has also been pointed out that Sidhu, at the ceremony, was sitting next to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir President Masood Khan.