Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday hailed the resumption of India-Pakistan dialogue and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's gesture of visiting Lahore on his way back from Afghanistan last week.
"Indian Prime Minister came to Lahore and gave us his a few hours. It is high time the countries put aside their hostilities," Sharif said at a function on Wednesday.
Modi's visit was a "spontaneous" move that had happened after he called up Sharif to wish him on his birthday last Friday, government sources had said.
It was Modi's first visit to Pakistan since taking office in 2014. It was also the first visit to Pakistan by an Indian prime minister in 12 years.
