Speaking to Radio Pakistan’s Current Affairs programme about the possibility of peace between Pakistan and India, Aziz said it would not be fair to expect instant resolution of all issues between the two countries. “Hope they will understand that the Prime Minister’s vision is for common good”, he said, adding that Modi will visit Pakistan next year for the SAARC Summit “if all goes well”.
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“Traditional build-up to an Indian PM’s visit to Pakistan would have seen different interest groups bringing all kinds of pressure to bear”, The Times of India said.
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The opposition Congress party termed Modi’s visit irresponsible and said that nothing has happened to warrant the warming of ties between the rivals.
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The New York Times, which quite often has been critical of the Prime Minister, while underscoring the significance of Modi’s impromptu trip to Lahore said the Indian leader in the past has moved from one policy to the other and described it as “a diplomatic dance”.
While the optics of seeing Mr Modi and Mr Sharif hand in hand and hugging augur well, it will be the bilateral talks scheduled for next month that will show whether this has substance or whether this ends up being no more than a gesture.
Although the importance of personal relations between prime ministers in worldwide relations can sometimes be overstated, the context of the occasionally stuttering relations between the two nuclear-armed countries means this development deserves to be welcomed.
“Modi has made clear he is willing to risk political capital to make peace”, the Indian Express newspaper said, warning that any future terrorist attacks traced to Pakistan would invite “savage criticism”. “This is the best Christmas gift to the mankind which believes in peace and amity”. Also, two weeks ago, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj visited Pakistan to attend a meeting on Afghanistan.
On December 23, the neighbouring country had proposed talks between their foreign secretaries to discuss all the outstanding issues in the middle of January. Tensions between Hindu-majority India and mostly Muslim Pakistan, home to 20 per cent of the world’s population, risk fuelling extremists in South Asia. More than 68,000 people have been killed in ongoing Kashmir violence, which began in 1989.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a key separatist leader in the Indian portion of Kashmir, said: “It’s a welcome step”.
He said such contacts should continue for resolving all the issues, including the longstanding Kashmir dispute.
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Pakistan Peoples Party, while talking with Geo, a TV news network.
