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Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Shahbaz Sharif who became the Prime Minister for the second time

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Shahbaz Sharif was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Monday. He has taken the reins of the country for the second time after 2022.(Photo:Facebook/PMO India)

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Shahbaz Sharif, who became the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time.

Shahbaz Sharif was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Monday. He has taken the reins of the country for the second time after 2022. Modi said in a social media post on Tuesday that 'Congratulations to Shahbaz Sharif on becoming the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Earlier he congratulated Imran Khan in August 2018 and Shahbaz Sharif on becoming the Prime Minister for the first time in April 2022. congratulated In May 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also invited Pakistan's then PM Nawaz Sharif to attend his swearing-in ceremony along with other South Asian leaders, but what is different this time is that Modi's congratulation was not only brief. But he did not even mention normalizing relations with Pakistan.

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