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India And Pakistan To Hold Composite Dialogue On January 15 In Islamabad
Narendra Modi in Pakistan: The Janata Dal (United) on Saturday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his unexpected Lahore visit and said that the internal matters of the nation won’t be solved by the latter’s foreign tours.
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Pakistan and India have agreed to hold foreign secretary level talks early next year to finalise the schedule and terms for the resumption of a comprehensive dialogue.
Modi and Nawaz Sharif decided during the unscheduled meeting to have their foreign secretaries meet soon in Islamabad, Pakistan Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry said.
Modi made a surprise stopover in Pakistan on Friday to meet his counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, the first time an Indian premier has visited in over a decade.
To another question, Sartaj Aziz said, all the institutions in Pakistan were on the same page on the issues of national importance. Modi’s plane stopped in Lahore, where it was met by at the airport by Sharif.
While this return to engagement is good for the citizens of India and Pakistan, it is also a positive development from the perspective of the Gulf countries.
The Wall Street Journal said Modi’s “gesture” was “likely to lend momentum to a tentative reconciliation process between the estranged, nuclear-armed neighbours”.
Khan who welcomed the surprise visit of Modi to Lahore yesterday took to social micro-blogging website Twitter for a veiled swipe at the alleged involvement of an Indian businessman. In an obvious reference to Pakistan, Modi said there were “some who did not want us to be here”.
The two leaders last met during the climate change conference in Paris in November, chatting briefly.
To another query, the minister said today Pakistan was better and sound economically than what it was in 2013, when the PML-N came into power.
That burst of personal diplomacy on Friday morning led to Modi’s sudden visit with Sharif in the Pakistani city of Lahore, taking both countries – and the world – by surprise. We can not have Ghulam Ali singing in India. He was also seen urging the security agencies, immigration and Parliament to take note of the incident and nearly instigating them towards imposing sanctions.
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A meeting of their top diplomats is now set for January in Islamabad, indicating a potential thaw in ties between two countries that have fought three wars, along with countless close calls, since gaining independence from Britain in 1947.