"We can’t change our neighbours, neither can Pakistan nor can India. We should live like good neighbours," the 74 year-old leader said.

Jaishankar's recent visit to Islamabad for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting on October 16 has generated significant attention, raising hopes for a possible thaw in the strained relations between India and Pakistan.

Nawaz Sharif, the former prime minister of Pakistan, said he was not pleased by the ‘long pause’ in the relationship between the two countries.