In an exclusive interview with The Indian Express, Khan said both India and Pakistan had to appreciate each other's point. Insisting that the Siachen talks had not broken down, he hoped that a solution would be found.

``According to the Shimla agreement neither India nor Pakistan can unilaterally change the borders after the 1972 position. The agreement was signed by the Prime Ministers of both the countries. But the Indian Army went to Siachen in April 1984. Is this not a violation of the Shimla agreement?'' he asked putting across his point of view.

Agreeing that casualties were high on both sides, he said that they were higher on the Indian side not because of the ``intensified and increased Pakistaniaggression as the Indian media puts it but because of the weather conditions.''

``Indian posts are higher on the glacier and thus your casualties are higher,'' he said. He also denied exporting terrorism to India and said the passes on the glacier were not used by Pakistan to export terrorism. Though Khan initially chose not to comment on the partial lifting of the US sanctions on India and Pakistan that benefits Pakistan more, later he said that Pakistan needed more aid than India and thus got more. `I don't think that the United States has been partial to Pakistan. We needed the IMF aid. We asked for it and got it. Probably if you had asked for it you would have got it too,'' he said.