PM to visit Pak for SAARC summit in 2016, says Sushma

December 09, 2015 17:12

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Pakistan next year to attend the SAARC summit, says External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

Modi will participate in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit, Swaraj told the media. She said she would accompany Modi during his visit, Geo TV reported.

"It is time we display maturity and self-confidence to do business with each other and strengthen regional trade and cooperation," Sushma Swaraj said in her address at the Heart of Asia Summit in Islamabad earlier in the day.

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