The inside story of the meeting between the premiers of Pakistan and Indian, Nawaz Sharif and Narendra Modi, are out now.
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Khan who welcomed the surprise visit of Modi to Lahore on Friday took to social micro-blogging website Twitter for a veiled swipe at the alleged involvement of an Indian businessman. Now it has been agreed that to talk on everything including Jammu and Kashmir. The leaders have met at worldwide events, most recently in Paris during the global climate change talks, that finally led to a visit by India’s foreign minister to Islamabad this month.
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In that environment, Modi’s visit to Lahore was a continuation of efforts by both leaders to find a personal bridge across a vast diplomatic gap. “People-to-people contact needs to increase” to improve the chances for peace, he said.
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“So this suddenly dropping by Pakistan is good. I am confident the visit will reduce tensions”, Shafqat Mehmood, a leader of PTI, said. India accuses Pakistan of supporting an ongoing separatist insurgency in the state.
Asked about what transpired between the talks between the two heads, he said it was not a structured dialogue but an attempt to build atmosphere which was successful. “This is like removing one quill at a time”. The “Composite Dialogue” will restart after the 2008 Mumbai attacks. India and Pakistan can accomplish much progress in nearly every sphere of life if they take practical steps to maximize the enormous potential they have by working with each other.
Sources told Dunya News that Modi wanted to see Nawaz Sharif’s house on foot but the auto didn’t stop anywhere from the house to the helipad.
Describing Prime Minister Narendra Modis surprise visit to Lahore as a significant development in the ties between India and Pakistan, mainstream American media today said it is likely to add momentum to a tentative reconciliation process between them.
Chairman of the main opposition of Pakistan Peoples Party, Bilawal Bhutto, welcomed Modi’s visit.
Former Information Minister Sherry Rehman said the stopover by Narendra Modi (in Lahore) was highly appreciated by democratic forces.
Relations between India and Pakistan have had a couple of false starts after Sharif accepted Modi’s invitation to attend his inauguration previous year.
Ma praised the Modi Government for its outreach to Pakistan. Modi and Sharif saw each other in November at a South Asian summit in Nepal, but managed only a hand shake.
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Modi and Sharif are expected to meet in Davos on the margins of the World Economic Forum, to be held from January 20 to 23, senior officials from both countries have confirmed to The Telegraph.
