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Optimism after India, Pakistan talks?

Senior spokesperson of the Pakistani Foreign Office Qazi Khalilullah, too, stressed that the two PMs agreed to bolster co-operation and work together for establishing good neighbourly relations. They had a brief but ice-breaking meeting in Paris on November 30 on the sidelines of the climate change summit.

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It was Sharif’s 66th birthday and the family home was festooned with lights for his grand-daughter’s wedding on Saturday. Security was beefed up at the Lahore International Airport shortly before Modi’s arrival.


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Adviser on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz has said that as per decision of the two prime ministers, Foreign Secretaries of Pakistan and India would meet either on January 14 or 15 to prepare a schedule for the “Comprehensive Dialogue”.


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He said Nawaz Sharif should also have got the Quaid-i-Azam’s birthday cake cut by Narendra Modi prior to that of his own birthday.

Sartaj Aziz said the meeting of foreign secretaries was also confirmed in Modi-Nawaz meeting.

India’s External Affairs Ministry Spokesman stated the go to and the talks have been aimed toward infusing a “constructive spirit” within the neighborhood. He refused to share any further details. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was returning to India after completing official visits to Russian Federation and Afghanistan on December 25, 2015. He said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told him that at the moment he was in Lahore and later Prime Minister Modi landed in Lahore.

Farzan Rizvi, GM at Al-Shaya company and president of Aligarh Muslim University alumni association of Jeddah, thinks that dialogue is the only way forward. Analysts viewed the visit as a potential turning point in Pakistani-Indian relations. Stating that this can not be “Chai pe foreign policy ki charcha”, he said that it was unfortunate that Mr. Modi has not come out with any statement on his visit to Pakistan and has continued his practice of keeping everybody in the dark about his foreign tours in the past. “This is the best Christmas gift to the mankind which believes in peace and amity”. It should have been a proper structured state visit.

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The two countries were born out of British colonial India in 1947, divided into Hindu-majority India and Islamic Pakistan. More than 68,000 people have been killed in ongoing Kashmir violence, which began in 1989. “Modi had proudly mentioned his role in the dismemberment of Pakistan during his visit to Bangladesh”, he said. “It’s a small step because we don’t know what kind of sustainable progress is based around it. We don’t know if this is more than a grand gesture”, she told AFP. Now you have an app which can ensure that there is communication with people in India. The Pakistani premier, flanked by cabinet ministers, received Modi on the tarmac where military officers lined up along a red carpet. This Story is from Associated Press.

India's Modi makes surprise Pakistan visit