India-pak People To People Ties

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has written a letter to his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, pitching for "meaningful" engagement between the two countries, people familiar with the development said on Sunday.

The United States said today that it welcomes efforts by India and Pakistan to increase people-to-people contact, days after the two countries laid foundation stones for a corridor linking two revered gurdwaras on both sides of the border.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said the Kartarpur corridor could be a "new beginning" of reconciliation between India and Pakistan and called for facilitation of bilateral trade and people to people contact to make borders "irrelevant".

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today hailed the foundation stone laying of the Kartarpur corridor as the "beginning of a new chapter" in India-Pakistan ties and said it will act as a unifier to build "bridges across old chasms". This corridor will be a bridge between the two peoples who have so much in common, Mr Naidu said in his address at the f...

Pakistan's incumbent party rejected early election results Thursday that suggested former cricket hero Imran Khan was on his way to becoming the country's next prime minister, alleging "blatant" rigging. Shahbaz Sharif, the leader of the Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), dismissed results from Wednesday's nationwide poll as counting was still underway.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has written a letter to his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, pitching for "meaningful" engagement between the two countries, people familiar with the development said on Sunday.

The United States said today that it welcomes efforts by India and Pakistan to increase people-to-people contact, days after the two countries laid foundation stones for a corridor linking two revered gurdwaras on both sides of the border.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said the Kartarpur corridor could be a "new beginning" of reconciliation between India and Pakistan and called for facilitation of bilateral trade and people to people contact to make borders "irrelevant".

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today hailed the foundation stone laying of the Kartarpur corridor as the "beginning of a new chapter" in India-Pakistan ties and said it will act as a unifier to build "bridges across old chasms". This corridor will be a bridge between the two peoples who have so much in common, Mr Naidu said in his address at the f...

Pakistan's incumbent party rejected early election results Thursday that suggested former cricket hero Imran Khan was on his way to becoming the country's next prime minister, alleging "blatant" rigging. Shahbaz Sharif, the leader of the Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), dismissed results from Wednesday's nationwide poll as counting was still underway.