Pakistan wants “normal” ties with India on the basis of “mutual respect and sovereign equality”, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said today, describing India as an important neighbour. “India is an important neighbour for us and we would like to have normal relations with the country on the basis of mutual respect and sovereign equality,” Sharif told Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit during a meeting with him at PM’s House. Basit briefed him on the status of the Pakistan-India relations, according to an official statement.