Islamabad: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in London on Saturday that India would have to consider “sooner or later” his newly unveiled peace proposals, including demilitarisation of Kashmir and mutual withdrawal of troops from Siachen Glacier, according to the official media.

Talking to media in the British capital, Sharif said he had made the four-point peace initiative in his address at the UN General Assembly session on September 30 with “good intent” for reduction of tension between the two countries.

When pointed out that India had rejected his proposals and blamed Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism, he said that Pakistan’s neighbour “will have to consider his concrete proposals sooner or later.”

Sharif said both countries should adopt a balanced approach as the long-running bilateral animosity had impeded development.

The prime minister repeated the charge that India was involved in waging a “proxy war” against Pakistan from across the border and said it should come to an end.

Claiming that Islamabad has evidence of involvement of Indian intelligence in subversive activities in Pakistan, Sharif said the evidence has been shared with the United Nations.

Pakistan’s stance, the prime minister said, is being heard on this issue at the international level, claiming it “will definitely have its impact.”

Pakistani army chief General Raheel Sharif, who is currently on a visit to the UK, spoke on Friday at the Royal United Services Institute, a think-tank on defence and security.

The army chief, terming the Kashmir issue an unfinished agenda of 1947 partition of the sub-continent, said the world community must come forward to help resolve the long-standing issue if it wants genuine peace in the region.

Gen Sharif also said Pakistan would continue to support all efforts for peace in Afghanistan.

“While we continue to support enduring and permanent peace in Afghanistan, let us all beware of detractors and spoilers,” the army chief said, according to Pakistani military’s pubic relations wing.

The army chief said reconciliation was the only way forward in Afghanistan and everyone should support it.

“We have brotherly relations and blood ties with people of Afghanistan,” Gen Sharif said, adding border management and far greater international cooperation were needed for regional peace.

Commenting on Pakistan’s security environment, the army chief said it is now becoming conducive for upward economic trajectory and that efforts for “total security” will continue”.

Gen Sharif said his country wold not allow “even a shadow” of Daesh and termed the group a greater threat than Al-Qaida.

“As far as Daesh is concerned, in Pakistan, even a shadow of Daesh would not be allowed,” Sharif said.