NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet his Pakistani counterpart in Lahore on Friday, Modi said on twitter, in what will be the premier's first visit to the rival nation since taking office 19 months ago.
Modi is currently in Afghanistan's capital Kabul.
"Looking forward to meeting PM Nawaz Sharif in Lahore today afternoon, where I will drop by on my way back to Delhi," Modi tweeted.
Modi, who reached Kabul early in the morning from Moscow, tweeted that he spoke to Sharif over telephone and greeted him on his birthday.
Modi and Sharif resumed high-level contacts with a brief conversation at climate change talks in Paris late last month,
part of efforts to restart a peace dialogue plagued by militant attacks and distrust.
Modi will be the first Indian prime minister to visit Pakistan after Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2004.
Modi's decision comes soon after he blamed Pakistan - although without taking the country's name - for terrorism in Afghanistan and for allegedly trying to harm India-Afghanistan ties.
Agencies
