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PM Imran, Modi exchange pleasantries in Bishkek’
By News Desk
Published: June 14, 2019
TWEET EMAIL
Modi exchanged pleasantries with Imran at the leaders’ lounge at the summit venue, reveal Indian sources
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Prime Minister Imran Khan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit meeting in Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, India’s The Print has reported.
Quoting Indian official sources, The Print said Modi exchanged pleasantries with Imran at the leaders’ lounge at the summit venue. There was no formal meeting or ‘pull-aside’, just pleasantries exchanged, the sources added.
The Print reported on May 28 that the two leaders were expected to meet on the sidelines of the SCO summit and possibly begin the process of resuming stalled peace talks.
PM Imran had called Modi on May 26, expressing his desire to work together. On May 23, after the Indian parliamentary election results were announced, he had congratulated his Indian counterpart on Twitter.
One day before the Indian poll results, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had also told his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj in Bishkek that Pakistan wanted peace.
Since coming into power in 2018, PM Imran has repeatedly voiced Pakistan’s desire for peace, but the Modi administration has not reciprocated these peace gestures.
Bilateral relations between Pakistan and India have been bedeviled by unresolved disputes, mutual recrimination and bloody wars.
Tensions between them flared up in February this year, when Indian warplanes violated Pakistan’s airspace and dropped bombs triggering a retaliatory strike by Pakistani jets in Indian Occupied Kashmir.
In an ensuing dogfight, two Indian jets were shot down by Pakistani aircraft and one pilot was also captured who was later handed over to New Delhi as a peace gesture.
By News Desk
Published: June 14, 2019
TWEET EMAIL
Modi exchanged pleasantries with Imran at the leaders’ lounge at the summit venue, reveal Indian sources
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Prime Minister Imran Khan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit meeting in Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, India’s The Print has reported.
Quoting Indian official sources, The Print said Modi exchanged pleasantries with Imran at the leaders’ lounge at the summit venue. There was no formal meeting or ‘pull-aside’, just pleasantries exchanged, the sources added.
The Print reported on May 28 that the two leaders were expected to meet on the sidelines of the SCO summit and possibly begin the process of resuming stalled peace talks.
PM Imran had called Modi on May 26, expressing his desire to work together. On May 23, after the Indian parliamentary election results were announced, he had congratulated his Indian counterpart on Twitter.
One day before the Indian poll results, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had also told his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj in Bishkek that Pakistan wanted peace.
Since coming into power in 2018, PM Imran has repeatedly voiced Pakistan’s desire for peace, but the Modi administration has not reciprocated these peace gestures.
Bilateral relations between Pakistan and India have been bedeviled by unresolved disputes, mutual recrimination and bloody wars.
Tensions between them flared up in February this year, when Indian warplanes violated Pakistan’s airspace and dropped bombs triggering a retaliatory strike by Pakistani jets in Indian Occupied Kashmir.
In an ensuing dogfight, two Indian jets were shot down by Pakistani aircraft and one pilot was also captured who was later handed over to New Delhi as a peace gesture.