NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after meeting his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Tuesday that top diplomats from Pakistan and India would meet soon to advance peace talks between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
Mian Nawaz Sharif said“I pointed out that we are at the beginning of our respective tenures with a clear mandate. This provides us the opportunity of meeting the hopes and aspirations of our peoples that we will succeed in turning a new page in our relations. The one and a half billion people of the two countries want us to focus on their well-being and welfare”
Pakistan’s PM had recalled his invitation to Prime Minister Vajpayee to Lahore in February 1999 and told him that he intended to pick up the threads of the Lahore Declaration, from where it had to be left off in October 1999.
“We also agreed that the two foreign secretaries would be meeting soon to review and carry forward our bilateral agenda in the spirit of our meeting today.”
While before Nawaz Sharif’s speech, India’s foreign secretary briefed media about the meeting and said that Modi has raised issues of terrorism with Pakistan’s Prime Minister and clarified that there can be no bilateral relations until and unless Pakistan helps in finding the culprits of 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
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