Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif at a reception in Astana on Thursday night escalating India-Pakistan tensions over a range of issues.
Modi and Sharif exchanged greetings when they were in the leaders’ lounge for the reception at the Astana Opera organised to welcome the leaders who are participating in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit.
Since it was the first occasion when the two leaders came across each other after Sharif’s heart surgery, Modi enquired about his health.
Modi also enquired about Sharif’s mother and family.
Earlier, asked whether Modi and Sharif will have a bilateral meeting, external affairs spokesperson Gopal Baglay said, “Our position has not changed. There is no proposal from their side. There is no proposal either from our side.”
New Delhi has been maintaining that there was neither any request from the Pakistani side nor any such proposal from the Indian side for a Modi-Sharif meeting.
Both Modi and Sharif arrived in Astana to participate in the SCO Summit, which will on Friday induct both India and Pakistan as its full members.
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