It would have been ‘great’ if Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also attended the heads-of-government gathering of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Pakistan, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif said on Monday.

“I have always been a supporter of good relations with India. I hope there is an opportunity to revive our relationship,” he said in an interview with Indian journalist Barkha Dutt in Lahore.

“I have always been a supporter of good relations with India. I hope there is an opportunity to revive our relationship. It would have been a great thing if PM Modi had also attended the SCO summit. I do hope that he [Indian PM Modi] and us will have an opportunity to sit together in the not-so-distant future.”

She interviewed him at the Punjab Chief Minister’s Office in Lahore. She is representing Mojo Story in Pakistan to cover the regional summit. Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz was also present during the interaction.

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