“The Chinese side has noticed the report and welcomes the latest development in the Pakistan-India relationship”, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lu Kang said.
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In surprise visit, Indian PM Modi briefly stops in Pakistan
The U.S. has always believed that as the larger country in South Asia, India should be more magnanimous towards its neighbours. He stated the development in relations between the 2 nations was vital to regional peace, stability and improvement.
Modi, who inaugurated the Indian-built parliament house in Kabul Friday morning, said in a Twitter post that he will briefly halt in Lahore to meet his counterpart Nawaz Sharif later in the day.
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During their brief telephonic conversation yesterday morning, Mr Nawaz Sharif suggested, “Why dont you drop in and Mr Narendra Modi replied, “Yes, I am coming”. He, however, added that all seeds of such a relationship are laid in “silence” and adding that a number of meetings, including the NSA-level talks in Bangkok, Modi’s meeting with Sharif in Paris and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s visit to Pakistan helped create a conducive atmosphere.
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Narendra Modi in Pakistan: A full 28 years after Nehru’s second visit, his grandson and prime minister Rajiv Gandhi visited Pakistan in 1988 to take part in the fourth SAARC conference.
Sena’s Punjab President Sanjiv Ghanauli, Chairman Rajiv Tandon and Senior Vice-President Rajesh Palta said that “the sudden stopover in Lahore would embolden Pakistan and send wrong signals globally that India was under pressure vis-a-vis its relations with the neighbouring country”.
“We welcome the December 25 talks between PM Modi and PM Sharif in Lahore”.
He said,”I have already written in my book that the two countries’ leadership should come to the table sooner or later and it is a good move by the Indian Prime Minister”.
The Lahore meet, he said in a lighter vein, can be called an effective example of climate change except that it wanted to make the subcontinent warmer and not colder.
After Atal Behari Vajpayee, it’s the first visit of any Indian Prime Minister to Lahore in over a decade and political analysts are according great importance with the hope that this would definitely have positive reflection on the negotiations between the two sides formally starting from next month.
Ma praised the Modi Government for its outreach to Pakistan. Modi was offered meals prepared in “desi ghee” with Kashmiri tea, mixed veg, kheer and palak paneer on the menu.
While China was reluctant to talk terror because of Pakistani sensitivities, Indian officials say they have seen a new approach from Beijing amid rising violence in Xinjiang region, which has been blamed by Chinese officials on Islamist groups.
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Gupta welcomed the signing of 16 major deals in defense, nuclear energy and in hydrocarbon sectors between India and Russian Federation, saying on the economic front, both the countries aimed to enhance the current bilateral annual trade of USD10 billion to USD30 billion in the next 10 years.
