Pakistan Prime Minister congratulates Modi on his inauguration for a third term in India

The Indian Prime Minister thanks him for his “good wishes” in a brief exchange of messages a week after the elections

June 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, congratulated his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on Monday for his inauguration for a third term, which represents the first official statement from Islamabad after the president’s electoral victory a year ago. week, elections in which his party lost the absolute majority in Parliament, which it retains with the support of its coalition partners.

“Congratulations to Narendra Modi for being sworn in as Prime Minister of India,” Sharif said in a brief message on his account on the social network this way in which he thanks you for your “good wishes”.

Modi was sworn in as head of the country’s Government on Sunday, at the beginning of a historic third term, a circumstance that has not occurred in the last 60 years in the country. However, he does so at a time of special political weakness since, for the first time since he came to power ten years ago, he has needed to quickly form a coalition government with parties from his National Democratic Alliance.

Sharif’s brother and former Pakistani Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, attended Modi’s inauguration in 2014, which was the first time an event of this type took place in the history of bilateral relations, if Well, currently both countries maintain minimal relations and ties have deteriorated drastically under the mandate of Modi, who has reinforced his nationalist discourse in recent years.

In fact, Pakistan suspended bilateral trade and reduced diplomatic ties with India in 2019 after the authorities revoked the autonomy of Kashmir, in dispute between both countries, born from the partition of British India and fought in two wars to date. for their territorial dispute around this region.

Sharif has expressed in the past his desire to improve relations between the two countries, although there has been no progress in this regard since then. In 1999 there was a brief but intense military confrontation between both nuclear powers and a fragile truce has been maintained since 2003. India accuses Pakistan of harboring armed Kashmiri separatist groups.