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Outgoing Indian envoy to Pakistan meets Nawaz Sharif

Prime Minister Modi in his bi-monthly radio address Mann Ki Baat, said his government will announce the action plan of his ambitious “Start-up India, Stand up India” on January 16. He said both the prime ministers had five meetings.

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Aziz said the comprehensive dialogue in January between Pakistan and India will focus on all outstanding issues, including Kashmir.

Modi said the Government will design the programme according to the needs of the country. “Besides, it also demonstrates that Mr Sharif values the gift of Modi”, the source from the ruling PML-N said.

The process of resumption of talks was set in motion after a meeting between Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan in Paris on November 30 on the sidelines of Climate Change Conference.

Strategic experts on Saturday welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s historic, surprise visit to Pakistan as a major step aimed at rebuilding the derailed bilateral peace process.

The plan is to also have “tangible outcomes” by the time Modi visits Islamabad for the SAARC Summit. “Modi ji should also tell as to what are the problems that the promises made by him have not been fulfilled yet”. The Pakistani premier, flanked by cabinet ministers, received Modi on the tarmac where military officers lined up along a red carpet.

Mehrun Nisa, daughter of Maryam Nawaz, married Raheel Munir, son of well known industrialist Chaudhry Munir, who was the first to shake hands with Modi when he got off the auto at Jati Umrah outside Lahore on Friday evening.

Within four hours of that call made from Kabul, Afghanistan, where the Indian leader was visiting, Mr Modi had landed in Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab, at 5.05pm.

Bharatiya Janata Party’s Nalin Kohli told media “It was a spontaneous but bold and innovative decision to visit Pakistan”.

In Pakistan, opposition senator Sherry Rehman said that while most Pakistanis backed better ties, parliament had not been consulted and it was unclear what concessions Islamabad was ready to make. But the fact that Sharif was in Lahore, and his invitation to the Indian PM to visit his Raiwind home, raised security concerns among Indian officials.

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Modi was on his way back from a visit to Russian Federation. “It was planned meeting”, he said, adding this would help defuse tension between Pakistan and India.

Lahore Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif at a meeting in Lahore