Here for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan counterpart Imran Khan sat across the table at a dinner at the Frunze restaurant, but there was no exchange of pleasantries. Advertising“Koi dua-salaam nahin hua (there was no exchange of pleasantries),” a source told The Indian Express, after the dinner. This was different from what had happened two years ago with then Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif. “And we hope that, as I’ve said, now that the elections are over, India will respond positively to these initiatives, to further people-to-people contact. Now, I think, it is time for them to take the initiative, and so we can get back on the dialogue table,” he said.

Source: Indian Express June 13, 2019 23:15 UTC