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| The NYT report said Modi placed a private call to wish Sharif on Friday morning to wish him a happy birthday and landed in Lahore four hours later. |
The surprise visit of PM Modi to Lahore to wish his counterpart Nawaz Sharif on his birthday made it to the New York Times front page in a big way.
It was the lead photo on page 1, spread across four columns.
For the photo-savvy and publicity-weak Modi there has been no bigger foreign policy and media triumph so far.
For Sharif, it is good to be in the limelight for the right reasons.
The coverage shows how paranoid the western world is about the prospects of a nuclear confrontation between the two traditional rivals in South Asia.
The NYT report said Modi placed a private call to wish Sharif on Friday morning to wish him a happy birthday and landed in Lahore four hours later. His impromptu visit was so sudden even Sharif’s national security adviser could not make the journey from Islamabad in time.