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Experts hail PM Modi’s surprise visit to Pakistan
India’s Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to Pakistan on Friday, his first such trip as prime minister to this Islamic nation that has been India’s long-standing archrival in the region.
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Narendra Modi is the fourth Indian prime minister to visit Pakistan while 10 out of 14 Indian prime ministers have never been to Pakistan, a leading newspaper said on Saturday.
“The Chinese side has noticed the report and welcomes the latest development in the Pakistan-India relationship”, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lu Kang said.
Upon his official visits to Russian Federation and Afghanistan, Indian Prime Minister Modi landed at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport on December 25 on a “surprise” visit, where he was received by Pakistani Premier Nawaz Sharif and his bother Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.
Modi’s arrival in Lahore looks unannounced to the public, though not necessarily unscheduled and so the media of governments of both India and Pakistan have been kept in darkness about Modi meeting Sharif.
Modi said Sharif touchingly recalled his interactions with former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the last Indian prime minister to go to Pakistan and who is now bed-ridden. “He obviously welcomes this visit and this step in the right direction and he hopes that the dialogue will be maintained and strengthened”, a United Nations spokesperson told PTI when asked about the United Nations chief’s response to Modi’s visit to Pakistan, the first by an Indian Prime Minister in more than a decade.
“It happened at such a point of time when the Pakistan cricket team is not being allowed to play in India, an artiste like Ghulam Ali is not being allowed to perform in the country”.
“I think it has created a conducive atmosphere for both India and Pakistan to move towards resolution of substantial issues”. So this suddenly dropping by in Pakistan is good.
The meet was followed by the national security advisers’ meeting in Bangkok a week later following which the External Affairs Minister visited Pakistan to attend Heart of Asia Conference.
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“The visit of Prime Minister to Afghanistan was very important keeping in view India’s strategic interests”. Pakistani people, parliament and government give prominence to the speedy resolution of Kashmir for which thousands of Kashmiris and Pakistanis have died!