Following his flash visit to Russia and Afghanistan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised everyone by making an unplanned visit to the country’s arch rival, Pakistan, as he landed in Lahore from Kabul just a while ago.
The Indian PM has been received by the Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his wife at the airport. He was then taken to Sharif’s residence in a Pakistani helicopter. Modi will extend his greetings to PM Sharif’s granddaughter, who is getting married tomorrow.
Modi, who earlier wished Nawaz Sharif on his 65th birthday, tweeted “Looking forward to meeting PM Nawaz Sharif in Lahore today afternoon, where I will drop by on my way back to Delhi.” Modi will spend two hours in Lahore before he flies back to New Delhi.
Modi is the first Indian PM to step in Lahore ever since his guru and former Indian PM AB Vajpayee took a bus there in 1999, and also the first PM to visit Pakistan since 2004. Both the Prime Ministers had last met at the Paris Climate Summit COP21 in early December.
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