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Modi visit, a surprise gift to birthday boy Sharif
In a unscheduled visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi returning from Russia flew into Afghanistan in the morning and later surprised all by landing in Lahore for a brief meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, who celebrated his 66th birthday
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Modi’s visit to Pakistan is the first by an Indian prime minister in over a decade. He was received by Sharif with a warm hug at the tarmac of Allama Iqbal International Airport after his unexpected stopover here on his way back home after a day-long trip to Afghanistan where he inaugurated the Parliament building.
Modi was accorded a red carpet welcome as PM’s special IAF Boeing 737 plane made a smooth touchdown at 4.20 local time(4.50 IST). He then took a chopper to proceed to Sharif’s Raiwind palatial residence in the outskirts of Lahore.
“Looking forward to meeting PM Nawaz Sharif in Lahore on Friday afternoon, where I will drop by on my way back to Delhi,” tweeted Modi, who was on his first visit to Pakistan. “Spoke to PM Nawaz Sharif & wished him on his birthday,” Modi added in another tweet. The visit came more than two weeks after Modi and Sharif met in Paris.
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