Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has extended an offer of talks to India, saying the country is ready to engage “for peace”.

Shehbaz made the comments during a visit to the Kamra airbase in the country’s Punjab province where he interacted with officers and soldiers involved in the recent military confrontation with India.

The Pakistan Prime Minister said the “conditions for peace” include the Kashmir issue. India has maintained that the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union Territory of Ladakh “are and always will be integral and inalienable parts of it”.

Shehbaz was accompanied to the airbase by Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, Army Chief General Asim Munir, Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu.

This was the Prime Minister’s second visit to a defence facility following the understanding reached between India and Pakistan India on May 10 to end the conflict after four days of intense cross-border drone and missile strikes.