The visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi started talks with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on Friday shortly after he arrived in Lahore on an unscheduled visit, officials said.
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“It is unfortunate that we get to know about prime minister’s visit through a tweet… It indicates Prime Minister’s resolve to enter into a long-term strategic partnership with Pakistan”, he stated.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif greeted him at an airport in Lahore during his short layover in the city while en route to New Delhi from Afghanistan.
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Chaudhury said that both the leaders agreed to carry forward the peace process and broaden bilateral contacts.
The visit took everyone by surprise in India and Pakistan. Earlier this morning, Modi tweeted greetings to Sharif on his 66th birthday and wished him good health.
Prime Minister Modi today visited Lahore on his way back home in a surprise visit – the first trip to Pakistan by an Indian premier in more than 10 years.
Atal Vajpayee was the last Indian PM to visit Pakistan in 2004.
Soon after his arrival, Modi flew to Sharif’s farmhouse in the suburbs of Lahore in a helicopter. Like leaders of other nations in the world like the EU, ASEAN and even countries in our neighborhood leaders of India and Pakistan too needed to inject informality in their relations.
India accuses Pakistan of arming and training insurgents fighting for Kashmir’s independence from India or its merger with Pakistan, a charge Islamabad denies.
The two countries were born out of British colonial India in 1947, divided into Hindu-majority India and Islamic Pakistan.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a key separatist leader in the Indian portion of Kashmir, said: “It’s a welcome step”.
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Associated Press Writer Ashok Sharma contributed to this reports from New Delhi, India.
