Discussion of kashmir between India and Pakistan

Major political parties, including the Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, had the consensus on peace and enhanced people-to-people contacts between Pakistan and India, Sartaj Aziz said while talking to a private television channel.

Jung said Modi was the only Indian prime minister to have visited the private residence of a Pakistani prime minister. Radio Pakistan reported that former PPP Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said Modi’s trip would help in holding composite dialogue between the two countries.

Saeed, who orchestrated the November, 2008, Mumbai terror attack in which 166 people were killed, roams around freely in Pakistan despite being a designated terrorist and has made many anti-India remarks and speeches.

The two countries were born out of British colonial India in 1947, divided into Hindu-majority India and Islamic Pakistan.

He recalled that BJP stalwart and the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had also taken a similar exercise with his Lahore bus journey.

“That’s like a statesman”.

On his way home from Kabul, Modi halted in Lahore for about two hours and met his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif and discussed bilateral relations.

Tension between the neighbours has risen since the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, called off peace talks in August and clashes along stretches of the Indo-Pak border have been erupting intermittently since October previous year. He added he had always been encouraging both leaders of the two countries to engage in dialogue.

He was accompanied by Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. Like leaders of other nations in the world like the EU, ASEAN and even countries in our neighborhood leaders of India and Pakistan too needed to inject informality in their relations.

Despite broad welcome, there were isolated voices opposing PM Modi’s trip.

And Modi unexpectedly landed in Lahore to wish his counterpart on his 66th birthday, it said. Sharif later saw off Modi at the airport.

Sirajul Haq, chief of right wing Jamaat-i-Islami, said it was unfortunate that PM Modi was welcomed in Pakistan.