Pakistan Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry addressed media after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise visit to Lahore today. Below are the highlights:

• It was a good visit
• Meeting was held in very cordial atmosphere
• It was decided to initiate comprehensive bilateral dialogue
• It has been decided that there will be more interaction, people to people contact to create an environment of goodwill.
• All issues in composite dialogue to be taken up
• Foreign secretaries of both countries could meet in January in Islamabad
• We need to see the issues and we need to open road of peace
• Both countries should address each others’ concerns and understand them.
• They should open avenues of peace with each other
• Both civil and military establishments are on the same page.
• I was lucky to be in Lahore today or else I would have missed this meeting.
• If we had been given some notice, then the foreign secretaries and other high ranking officials could have attended the meeting.
• [“source-ndtv”]