“But with his flash of spontaneous personal diplomacy on Friday, Mr. Modi appeared to send a strong public message that the ambiguous course he has taken toward Pakistan has shifted to embrace engagement, not confrontation”, it said.
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Modi, while returning from his visit to Russian Federation and Afghanistan, made a surprise stopover in Lahore last evening.
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“Beyond the noise, a personal connect”.
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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”.
India’s NDTV 24×7 news channel called it “Modi’s masterstroke”.
PPP secretary general Sardar Latif Khosa has termed the Nawaz-Modi meeting “positive”, saying India should carry forward the positiveness of this meeting and should not run away from talks.
The Wall Street Journal said Modi’s “gesture” was “likely to lend momentum to a tentative reconciliation process between the estranged, nuclear-armed neighbours”. It is not an easy path ahead.
Mr Khosa further said poverty was a common enemy of both countries and they should fight it together.
The foreign secretaries of both nations are scheduled to meet in January. What Ganesh has said is worth giving importance to. This was the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister in 11 years.
In the joint statement issued at the end of Swaraj’s meeting with Pak Foreign Affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz on December 8 it was decided that the two sides would commece a Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue to discuss security, Confidence Building Measures (CBMs), Jammu & Kashmir, Siachen, Sir Creek, Wullar Baragge/Tulbul Navigation Project, Economic and Commercial Cooperation, Counter- Terrorism, Narcotics Control, Humanitarian Issues, People-to-People exchanges and religious tourism.
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“It is utterly ridiculous”. Congress leader Manish Tewari told ANI. “The relationship between India and Pakistan is perhaps the most complex, convoluted and intricate relationship between two nuclear weapon states”.
