ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India affirmed yesterday that relations between the two countries have improved with Islamabad saying that forging ‘close ties’ was an important mandate of the present government.
“Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is very keen on improving relations (with India) by picking up the threads from the Lahore process of 1999,” Sartaj Aziz of National Security and Foreign Affairs, told Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal.
Sabharwal, who has been witness to the ups and downs of this mercurial bilateral relations between the two countries for four years, paid a farewell call on the adviser and said relations between the two countries had improved during the last two years and it was important to keep the momentum, said the spokesman at the Foreign Office.
“The present government has expressed its desire to improve relations with all our neighbours including India.
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