MULTAN: Former prime minister, Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, has said that the US can play a role in pacifying the ongoing tense situation between Pakistan and India.

Pakistan did not wish to go into war, as it was not a solution to the Pak-India issues, he said while talking to reporters here on Friday.

He said that both the countries were nuclear powers and they could not afford a war, stressing that dialogue was the only solution to their issues.

He said that India was creating war-like environment in the region to divert the attention of world from its atrocities in held Kashmir and for political gains in the upcoming general elections in the country.

He demanded the world powers pressurize India on the Kashmir issue, adding that Pakistan had rendered 70,000 sacrifices in the war against terrorism.