Days after Modi's visit, Nawaz Sharif talks of putting aside hostilities

December 31, 2015 08:03

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hailed the resumption of India-Pakistan dialogue and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's gesture of visiting Lahore on his way back from Afghanistan last week.

"Indian Prime Minister came to Lahore and gave us his a few hours. It is high time the countries put aside their hostilities," Sharif said at a function.

PM Modi's visit was a "spontaneous" move that had happened after he called up Sharif to wish him on his birthday last Friday, government sources had said.

It was PM Modi's first visit to Pakistan since taking office in 2014. It was also the first visit to Pakistan by an Indian prime minister in 12 years. The meeting took place amid great cordiality.

Sharif had received PM Modi at the airport, greeted him with a hug and took him off in a chopper to his ancestral home near Lahore, where the two held talks for an hour.

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