Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said: “Pakistan and India are important countries in South Asia”.
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The two leaders met for a little less than two hours at Sharif’s festively lit ancestral home in Lahore, where they talked about improving ties.
Tauba Tauba! That’s the reaction this Pakistani journalist had when 120 indian delegates landed in Lahore along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to meet and greet Nawaz Sharif.
Singh refuted allegations of Congress on the role of a businessman in Modi’s Pakistan visit and said the visit of Modi has renewed hopes of repatriation of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim to India.
The influential Washington Post said that with his surprise stop in Pakistan, Modi had “pressed the reset button on the blow-hot-blow-cold relationship between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, paving the way for official dialogue to resume next month”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is received by his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif upon his arrival in Lahore.
Though Mr Modi’s visit received largely positive feedback in India and Pakistan, some Indian opposition parties criticised the Premier.
Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz.
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”.
Indian High Commissioner Dr TCA Raghavan on Tuesday paid a farewell call on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in PM House Islamabad. “On January 16, I will be with you to give a detailed overview of the campaign”, he said while welcoming suggestions from people.
“The leaders decided that even in the worst-case scenarios, come what may, the NSAs must be in touch with each other”, sources told The Indian Express. “We are independent nations and we are capable of dealing with each other without bridges from Pakistan”, he said, adding that incursions and cross-border terrorism still persist.
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It was the second meeting of the two prime ministers in a month.
