The prime ministers of Pakistan and India have agreed at a rare meeting to cooperate on eliminating terrorism in South Asia, Pakistan’s foreign ministry said. Aljazeera was there:
In a sign of easing relations, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also accepted his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif’s invitation to attend a South Asian regional summit to be held in Islamabad next year. “Both sides condemned terrorism in all its forms and agreed to cooperate with each other to eliminate the menace of terrorism from south Asia,” Pakistani Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said in a statement on Friday.
Sharif and Modi met in the Russian city of Ufa, where they were attending summits of the BRICS trade group and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Pakistani television showed the pair shaking hands and smiling.
After around an hour of talks between the two leaders, their governments issued a joint statement including vague commitments on some of the most contentious issues between them, including speeding up efforts to bring those behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks to justice. While Sharif did attend Modi’s inauguration in May last year, relations soon cooled amid flare-ups in violence along the border in Kashmir, the Himalayan region which is claimed by both countries.
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