Pakistan elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday said that he would invite Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during oath-taking ceremony to Islamabad. His party had won the elections in Pakistan on 11 May 2013.
This is the third time Nawaz Sharif is elected as the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Nawaz Sharif said his government would establish friendly ties with India, and added that he would invite Manmohan Singh for his oath-taking ceremony to Islamabad, reported Dawn.
He made the remark while talking to foreign correspondents at his palatial residence in Raiwind.
His party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was ahead in the National Assembly elections following cricketer-turned-politician
Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party while the ruling Pakistan People’s Party relegated to the third spot.
He also said that his government would devise a national policy to tackle terrorism.
"We will contact every party for the purpose of forming our policy on
terrorism," Sharif said.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday congratulated PML-N chief Nawaz
Sharif and expressed his desire to work to work with the government.
PM Manmohan Singh congratulated Mr. Nawaz Sharif and his party for their impressive win in Pakistan's elections," the Prime Minister's Office tweeted as it congratulated the people and the political parties of Pakistan for "braving the threats of violence and voting in large numbers".
"PM expressed India's desire to work with the new government of Pakistan in charting a new course for the relationship between the two countries," said another tweet.
-With inputs from IANS
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