Army Chief Gen. Raheel Sharif is said to be close to the new National Security Adviser, recently retired General Naseer Khan Janjua, who replaced Sartaj Aziz, an ally of the Prime Minister, in October.
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Modi said Sharif touchingly recalled his interactions with former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the last Indian prime minister to go to Pakistan and who is now bed-ridden.
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Aziz was speaking in the Senate about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise to Pakistan visit last week and said as decided by the prime ministers in their recent meeting, the dignitaries of India and Pakistan would meet “on January 14 or 15”.
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He said the family believes that “after a hard start the Royal Thai Police conducted a methodical and thorough investigation”. They attended the opening of the trial in July when they said they “simply want to see justice done fairly and openly “.
Saying that the meeting sent a signal to “hawkish” constituencies in both India and Pakistan, The Khaleej Times said, “Equally, it also sends signals down the line to the Indian military and civilian bureaucracies that the NDA government’s Pakistan policy has embarked on a new and momentous course”. Asserting India’s interests and allaying apprehensions thus, Modi engaged his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in soft diplomacy.
A second member of Sharif’s cabinet said the same of Modi. Modi accepted the invitation and Sharif received Modi at Lahore airport and then took him to his Raiwind residence.
He said now the two leaders have met at least five times and the warmth of relations created by the Lahore meeting would hopefully have an impact on the formal dialogue. However Pakistani officials said that true change only became possible after Janjua’s appointment.
Both leaders have been invited by US President Barack Obama for the Nuclear Security Summit on March 31st and April 1st.
Asserting that the country had “no compulsion” to improve ties with Pakistan, Sena leaders reminded Modi that “it was the same country which had beheaded our soldiers and taken their heads as trophies, besides engineering Mumbai attack”. Pakistan’s Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Tehreek-e-Insaaf Chief Imran Khan welcomed Modi’s visit to Pakistan.
News about the prime minister’s stopover in Pakistan surfaced just hours before the actual visit when Modi wrote about it on Twitter.
A Pakistani report on Saturday said they discussed Kashmir too.
Senior Indian officials and politicians also spoke positively of the meeting, with foreign ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup tweeting that the meeting had set a “positive spirit in the neighborhood”.
Asked if Modi may have apprised Putin about his plans, the source said it was “possible”, in a general way.
“It is a positive step that he came… definitely… but we still have to move with caution”, he said.
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Third, those friends also want to see a reduction in Pak-India tensions to ease resolution of the Afghan conflict.
