India, Pakistan foreign secretaries to meet next month

Modi soon arrived at Sharif’s private residence outside Lahore, meeting the Pakistani leader’s family at an estate decked out with decorations for the wedding of Sharif’s granddaughter.

On December 23, the neighbouring country had proposed talks between their foreign secretaries to discuss all the outstanding issues in the middle of January.

“Modi’s visit to Lahore has created hope and it indicates his style of diplomacy”, Malik said. He stopped off in the Afghan capital Kabul earlier on Friday, where he inaugurated a new parliament complex built with Indian help.

Sharif personally acquired Modi at Lahore airport and in addition got here to see him off. In between, the 2 held one-on-one ninety-minute lengthy talks at Sharif’s property close to Lahore.

Twitter – where the Prime Minister first informed the world about his visit to Lahore – was abuzz with his decision to meet Sharif.

To another query, the minister said today Pakistan was better and sound economically than what it was in 2013, when the PML-N came into power.

“But yes, it’s a clear signal that active engagement can be done at a quick pace”, the aide said, declining to be identified.

After a months of impasse, the situation between both the countries India and Pakistan seems like thaw.

Dar said the PML-N government was under the leadership of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif committed to making Pakistan much stronger, economically sound, more peaceful and handsome.

Asif said Pakistan wanted good ties with its neighbours.

The national security advisors, he added, recently met in Bangkok.

A full 28 years after Nehru’s second visit, his grandson and prime minister Rajiv Gandhi visited Pakistan in 1988 to take part in the fourth SAARC conference.

Lu said Pakistan and India are important countries in south Asia, and the improvement of their relationship will be significant to regional peace, stability and development. Have they agreed to handover Dawood Ibrahim to India?

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not reacted to Modi’s initiative but its leader Subramanian Swamy said Modi should have a free hand on Pakistan.

Initial optimism about a revival of ties was short-lived as the two countries traded heavy fire across their disputed border in the Himalayan territory of Kashmir which claimed dozens of lives on both sides. Congress leader Manish Tewari told ANI.

The greatest bouquets for Modi came from Jammu and Kashmir, which is at the heart of India-Pakistan tensions.

The building is the latest symbol of a longstanding diplomatic effort by New Delhi to cultivate links with Afghanistan.