"We should not allow non-state actors, these cavemen living in hills, to decide Pakistan and India's foreign policy. Otherwise ceding to them at that level how do you expect us to go back to the people and expect them to fight them at all the other levels," the 25-year-old Bhutto family scion said.
Asked about whether there was a commitment from PPP's side to address India's concern on terrorism after the Mumbai attacks, Bilawal said, "Not only myself, the PPP is committed to peace with India and working out all disputes.
Pakistan blames non-state actors for terror strikes in India, including the 2008 Mumbai attacks that claimed 166 lives.
Bilawal has been increasingly voicing his views on various issues in recent weeks and has announced that he and his sisters, Aseefa and Bakhtawar, would become part of mainstream politics before the next general election in 2018.
"So to that extent...There is nothing more motivating in a son's life in particular than making his mother's dream come true," he said.
Bilawal said he had learnt most things including politics from his mother (Benazir Bhutto) as she "raised her three innocent children with one hand and with the other she challenged dictatorships".
He did not led the PPP's campaign in the May 11 general election last year despite calls from candidates, particularly from Punjab, to address rallies, sparking reports of differences with his father former President Asif Ali Zardari and his aunt Faryal Talpur over running the party's affairs.
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