'We cannot afford any conflict'

This is apropos a Business Recorder news item "PM tells envoys' moot: 'We cannot afford any conflict'" carried by the newspaper yesterday. According to it, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has declared that Pakistan's desire for peace and friendly relations in the region must not be construed as its weakness.
That the prime minister has shown a strong appreciation of the foreign policy challenges is a fact that has found its best expression in his speech before country's top ambassadors posted in highly important capitals across the world. His is, of course, a pragmatic approach to dealing with India's growing belligerence in particular. The arrival of India's home minister in Islamabad at Saarc's moot of interior/home ministers throws up an opportunity for the government to explain to him the gravity of the current situation in the Indian occupied Kashmir. The prime minister effectively sent his message across the border by saying that Islamabad's desire for greater peace in the region must not be construed as its weakness.