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.
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Modi stayed for over two hours in Lahore on his way back home from Afghanistan yesterday during which he held talks with Sharif at his Raiwind house. A source present in the meeting said the leaders of the nuclear-armed arch-rival nations “chatted like old friends” as they ate vegetarian food, with the Indian premier telling Sharif, “Your sincerity is beyond doubt”.
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Addressing a round-table interaction on Kashmir in the capital Islamabad, he, however, said that Pakistan would continue to support the Kashmir cause but wants a peaceful solution to the issue.
With his surprise visit to Pakistan, Modi had “breathed new life into a long troubled relationship”, said the Los Angeles Times. Yet members of the opposition Congress party denounced the “unpredictable” act, calling it un-statesmanlike, with some complaining such an important meeting should not have been announced on Twitter.
“If aggressive attitude of India ends after the meeting of the prime ministers of Pakistan and India at Jati Umra, it can be termed positive”, he said in a statement here on Saturday. Aziz Ahmed, a refugee from Indian-controlled Kashmir called the meeting a “mere photo session”. “He has raised a vital point”, Prime Minister Modi said. Initially, the secretary level talks was disrupted by us (India) as it was said that we will discuss only terrorism and no other issue.
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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.
