He said he also called Sharif and wished him happy birthday.
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Actor Anupam Kher today termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise visit to Lahore as “an important diplomatic move” and said he is trying to control the situation between the two countries like “a head of a family” would do. She had warm tete-a-tete with Sharif’s mother Shamim Akhtar who was born in Bheem Ka Katra, in Amritsar of undivided India.
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In his quick visit to the neighbouring nation which lasted for few hours, Modi met his counterpart Nawaz Sharif on Friday.
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Relations between India and Pakistan have been strained over a series of cross-border firing incidents that both countries blamed on each other. Modi’s visit is the first by an Indian prime minister to Pakistan since the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed in the Indian city by militants trained in Pakistan.
I can not confirm, but there are chances that Modi goes to Raiwind and holds a meeting with PM Sharif at his residence, he said.
“So, you have finally come”, Sharif told Modi, according to a Pakistani foreign ministry official who was at the meeting. “As a Leftist, I welcome any step towards peace & cooperation with Pakistan”. There were no changes in relationship (with Pakistan) by NSA talks, or Heart of Asia conference.
The hugely popular Aam Aadmy Party also did not seem to like the visit with their influential leader tweeting the following message.
After a year of rising tensions, top security officials from India and Pakistan held talks in Thailand’s capital earlier in December, discussing a range of issues, including Kashmir and ways to maintain peace along the countries’ shared border.
The Senior Leader of Peoples Party United said he was “shocked” by the decision.
The two nuclear powers holding 20 per cent of the world’s population will start a “comprehensive bilateral dialogue”, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Dec 9 in Islamabad in a joint briefing with Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan’s de facto foreign minister.
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Ahead of his address, he and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani jointly inaugurated Afghanistan’s new parliament building which was constructed with Indian assistance of $90 million.
