In an exclusive interview to NDTV's Barkha Dutt, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is in New Delhi to attend Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony, says he looks forward to meeting Mr Modi and that it is a great chance to reach out to each other.
Following are the highlights of the interview:- It is a great moment and a great opportunity
- This is a chance to reach out to each other
- Both have strong mandate, could help turn new page in relations
- No two nations have so much cultural and traditional similarity
- Why not turn the similarities into our strength?
- I very much look forward to meeting Mr Modi
- Should remove fears, mistrust and misgivings about each other
- We should rid region of decades of instability, insecurity
- This is BJP of Vajpayee, for whom I have greatest of respect
- Intend picking up from where Vajpayee and I left off in 1999