“Modi going to Lahore and meeting Sharif on Atalji’s birthday is a pleasant surprise”, he said.
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Most of the 298 refugees on the Montreal-bound flight are privately sponsored and destined for resettlement in Quebec, Edlund added.
Local media reports say Modi has now returned to Delhi.
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He will also congratulate Sharif on the wedding of his granddaughter Mehrun Nisa (who is daughter of Mariam Nawaz Sharif) and present some gifts to the couple.
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Jazan is near the border with Yemen, which has seen months of fighting between Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed forces. The cause of the fire has not yet been ascertained. “We could hear the women screaming”, the man said.
However, Modi’s critics – mostly Indians – were not far behind in questioning their prime minister’s real motive. Modi and Sharif talked for about 90 minutes and shared an early-evening meal before the Indian leader flew back home.
In 2012, then-President Asif Ali Zardari became the first Pakistani leader to visit India in seven years. Tensions between Hindu-majority India and mostly Muslim Pakistan risk fueling extremists in South Asia and beyond. He said the Prime Minister during his oath ceremony invited everybody including Mr Nawaz Sharif and both held discussions on various issues.
Modi and Sharif had fleetingly met at the Paris Climate Summit on November 30, preparing the atmosphere for a resumption of the stalled bilateral dialogue.
“Prime Minister Modi has once again proved his critics, who call him a Hindu hardliner, wrong by his unconventional style and by leading India’s foreign policy from the front”, said K.G. Suresh, a senior fellow at the New Delhi-based Vivekananda International Foundation, which was founded by Ajit Doval, India’s national security adviser. It was followed by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s visit to Pakistan.
India wants Moscow to take part in infrastructure projects as the Modi government seeks to overhaul the country’s railway network and build nuclear energy plants to meet the growing electricity needs for its fast-growing economy.
But India’s major opposition party, Congress, questioned Modi’s visit to Pakistan, saying serious information like this should not have been revealed through Twitter, reported Times of India. Modi reached Kabul early on Friday after a two-day visit to Russian Federation. Speaking at the start of the talks in the Kremlin, Modi hailed Russian Federation as “a reliable friend” who “always stood by us”.
Without referring directly to Pakistan, India’s traditional rival in the region, Modi said that some had seen “sinister designs in our presence” in Afghanistan.
“All of us in the region – India, Pakistan, Iran and others – must unite, in trust and cooperation, behind this common objective and in recognition of our common destiny”.
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Pushing for upping economic ties, PM Modi and President Putin have agreed to institutionalise the CEO’s Forum, with two meetings every year, one to be held in India and the other in Russian Federation. Earlier on Friday, Modi arrived at Arg, the Afghan presidential palace, and was greeted with a warm hug by the Afghan president.
