Modi-Sharif meeting an innovative diplomacy: HM

"The meeting is an innovative diplomacy," Singh said at a function here to mark the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Singh's remarks came a day after Modi's visit to Pakistan, the first by an Indian Prime Minister in more than a decade.

Modi, while returning from his visit to Russia and Afghanistan, made a surprise stop at Lahore last evening.

"Looking forward to meeting PM Nawaz Sharif in Lahore today afternoon, where I will drop by on my way back to Delhi," he had tweeted.

The Home Minister maintained that the "visit was in line with the vision of Vajapyee on India-Pakistan relations".

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had travelled to Lahore from New Delhi on the inaugural run of a bus route in 1999.

Modi and Sharif had met briefly on the sidelines of the Paris Climate Change Summit recently. The Paris meeting was the first between the two leaders after July when they had met in the Russian city of Ufa and had agreed that their National Security Advisers would meet.

The two leaders also attended the UN General Assembly session in September but did not meet even though they stayed in the same hotel.

The two leaders again came under one roof during a peacekeeping summit held on the sidelines of the General Assembly, but only waved at each other and did not speak or shake hands. .