Our correspondent /
Former Pakistan Cricket captain and the Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party, Imran Khan today called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and invited the Prime Minister to visit Pakistan.
Both leaders welcomed the recent developments in bilateral relations and expressed the hope that these would lead to closer cooperative ties between the two countries.
Imran khan also requested PM to resume bilateral cricket ties with Pakistan.
India were supposed to play Pakistan in a full-fledged series including two Tests, five one-day internationals and two T20s in the United Arab Emirates in December but the BCCI refused to send its team to the Middle East. Pakistan declined an offer from the Indian cricket board to play a short bilateral series in India citing security concerns.
Former Pakistan captain is in India for the Agenda Aaj Tak 2015.
Khan is accompanied by party leaders Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Naeemul Haq.
The meeting between Imran and PM Modi comes days after Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj visited Islamabad and held meetings with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and PM’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz.
The two sides greed to reinitiate the comprehensive dialogue process to discuss all outstanding issues including terrorism and Kashmir.
They noted the successful talks on terrorism and security related issues in Bangkok by the two National Security Advisers and decided that the security advisers will continue to address all issues connected to terrorism.
“I told Prime Minister Modi that India and Pakistan should play each other. I had supported the boycott of South Africa by the cricket world during the apartheid era. That was about human rights violation and that was unacceptable,” Imran told in TV programme
“I am not in Govt so I don’t know where Dawood is,I can assure you he is not in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa where our party rules”, said -Imran Khan