Addressing a public meeting in Lucknow, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said they were surprised when they heard that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was going to Pakistan. They also discussed their next date, in January, in cold Switzerland. Mr Modi and Mr Sharif had first met in New Delhi, when the latter had come to attend the Indian Prime Ministers oath-taking ceremony on his invitation on May 26, last year.
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Modi and Sharif are expected to meet in Davos on the margins of the World Economic Forum, to be held from January 20 to 23, senior officials from both countries have confirmed to The Telegraph.
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“The Secretary General has always been encouraging both leaders of the two countries to engage in dialogue”, a United Nations spokesman said, when asked to comment on the surprise visit by PM Modi.
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The persistent threats of cross-border firing, infiltration and terrorism have made any future planning of such meetings a risky proposition that few have thought worth undertaking.
Former Prime Minister Vajpayee had travelled to Lahore in a bus from India in 1999 and started a peace initiative with Pakistan in 2004.
“He’s personalised diplomacy to an extent we haven’t seen in India since (India’s first prime minister) Jawaharlal Nehru in the 1950s”, she said.
But a series of setbacks followed after New Delhi declared a new “red line” for talks – that Pakistani officials and leaders would not meet Kashmiri separatists before any bilateral negotiations.
“In Independent India, after Atal Bihari Vajpayeeji, if there is someone who has made the country proud and raised its dignity in front of the world, it is Narendra Modi”, he said.
A source present in the meeting said the leaders “chatted like old friends” as they ate vegetarian food, with the Indian premier telling Sharif, “Your sincerity is beyond doubt”.
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Meanwhile, the State Department said Modi’s overture towards Pakistan would “benefit the entire region”.
