Sari For MomL: Modi thanks Nawaz for gift
After sweeping to a landslide election victory last month, Modi invited Nawaz Sharif to his inauguration.
NEW DELHI:
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday thanked his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif for gifting his mother a “wonderful” white sari in more warm words between the South Asian leaders. After sweeping to a landslide election victory last month, Modi invited Nawaz Sharif to his inauguration in a surprise move seen as a significant olive branch to neighbour. “Nawaz Sharif ... has sent a wonderful white sari for my mother,” Modi tweeted from his personal account. “I am really grateful to him & will send it to my mother very soon,” he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 6th, 2014.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday thanked his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif for gifting his mother a “wonderful” white sari in more warm words between the South Asian leaders. After sweeping to a landslide election victory last month, Modi invited Nawaz Sharif to his inauguration in a surprise move seen as a significant olive branch to neighbour. “Nawaz Sharif ... has sent a wonderful white sari for my mother,” Modi tweeted from his personal account. “I am really grateful to him & will send it to my mother very soon,” he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 6th, 2014.