Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) chief Nawaz Sharif and his brother and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on taking the oath for a third consecutive term.
“My warm felicitations to Modi Ji (@narendramodi) on assuming office for the third time. Your party’s success in recent elections reflects the confidence of the people in your leadership.
Let us replace hate with hope and seize the opportunity to shape the destiny of the two billion people of South Asia,” Mr. Nawaz Sharif, the former PM, said in a social media post on X. “Felicitations to @narendramodi on taking oath as the Prime Minister of India,” the younger Sharif wrote on X.
Mr. Nawaz Sharif had attended the swearing-in ceremony of Mr. Modi in 2014, when he was the premier of Pakistan.
It was during his stewardship of Pakistan that Mr. Modi stunned the world by making a stopover at Lahore while returning home from Afghanistan in December, 2015. Mr. Nawaz Sharif has always favored a cordial relationship with India, which, he believes, is in the greater interest of his own country. Recently, he went to the extent of saying that Pakistan violated the peace agreement with India and undertook the Kargil misadventure in 1999.
In February, Mr. Modi congratulated Mr. Shehbaz Sharif after he took the oath as Pakistan PM for the second time. He also thanked PM Modi for his felicitations. Mr. Modi also responded to the congratulatory post from his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and thanked him for his wishes.