LIVE! 50-minute meeting between Narendra Modi-Nawaz Sharif ends

May 27, 2014 13:44

The meeting lasted longer than the stipulated time of 30 minutes. Sharif leaves for Hyderabad House. He will be flying back to Pakistan today. That brings to an end PM Modi's meetings with the SAARC delegates.

Next on Nawaz Sharif's agenda is a meeting with President Pranab Mukherjee and then a courtesy call on Atal Behari Vajpayee. Vajpayee has not been active in politics for over 10 years now. He suffered from a stroke in 2009 after which he could not speak. Sharif, however, insisted that he wanted to meet Vajpayee and enquire from his doctors about his health.

Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif signed the Lahore Declaration which spelt out a series of measures for improving ties between the two countries.

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