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New Delhi, May 27 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised issues of terror and the trial in Mumbai attack case in his first bilateral meeting with Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif here today.
According to sources, Modi raised the issue of slow pace of trial in 26/11 terror case which was being held in Pakistan and as also India's core concern of terror with the visiting Pakistani leader.
The two leaders also talked about ways to enhance cooperation in the field of trade during the meeting which was attended by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh among others, they said.
The two leaders had a firm handshake and posed for photographers before heading towards the meeting room for talks at the ceremonial Hyderabad House.
Ahead of his meeting, Sharif had yesterday said he was carrying a message of peace and intends to pick up the threads with India's new leader Narendra Modi from where he and then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee left off in 1999.
Both governments have a strong mandate and this could help in "turning a new page in our relations", the Pakistan Prime Minister had said.
Sharif's visit is seen as significant by political observers here given that hardline elements in Pakistan have expressed their unhappiness over his responding to the invitation positively.
Sharif will leave for Pakistan later in the day.
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On Modi's day 1 as PM, Nawaz Sharif among first visitors
New Delhi, May 27 (NDTV): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will begin his first day in office with a series of bilateral meetings with eight South Asian leaders who witnessed his inauguration on Monday. The highlight of his back-to-back meetings, however, will be his one-on-one with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
The two leaders are meeting under the weight of expectations following a long spell of frosty ties over the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and tension along the border.
Indian officials say today's meeting, scheduled to take place at the Hyderabad House around noon, will be more of an ice-breaker.
"We should remove fears, mistrust and misgivings about each other," Mr Sharif told NDTV yesterday, adding, "Both countries should rid the region of instability and security that has plagued us for decades."
Mr Sharif said he wanted to pick up the broken threads from where then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and he had left off in 1999, just before the Kargil conflict, in which India fought back Pakistani troops who had seized posts in the mountains on the Indian side.
Mr Sharif will call on Mr Vajpayee later today.
Before heading to the Hyderabad House for his meeting with the new Prime Minister, Mr Sharif is also visiting the Red Fort, Chandni Chowk and Jama Masjid.
Yesterday, the two prime ministers talked about their mothers when they met briefly after the swearing in ceremony.
In a series of tweets, Mr Modi shared, "Earlier in the evening in my conversation with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif he shared some very emotional things...Nawaz Sharif ji told me that he stays in Islamabad but goes to meet his Mother once in a week.
"This time when he was eating with his Mother he saw visuals on TV of my Mother offering me sweets...The visuals touched both Nawaz Sharif ji & his Mother. He told me that after seeing the visuals his Mother got very emotional."
Mr Modi's mother Hiraben, 95, watched the oath ceremony live on TV at her home in Gandhinagar.