Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam thanks Modi for gift
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter, Maryam on Tuesday expressed her gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for gifting a beautiful shawl for her grandmother.The gift had Sharif’s daughter Maryam in awe of the leader.
“Thank u v much PM @narendramodi for the beautiful shawl for my grandmother,” she wrote on the micro-blogging site, Twitter. She also attached a photograph of the shawl along with her comment. Maryam on her Twitter handle @MaryamNSharif wrote that her father was so impressed with the gift that he personally delivered the shawl to his mother.
During his conversation with Sharif in New Delhi, Modi came to know that the Pakistan PM goes to meet his Mother once in a week though he stays in Islamabad.On May 26, Sharif and Modi had a very emotional conversation about their mothers after the much-anticipated swearing-in ceremony held in the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
“Earlier in the evening in my conversation with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif he shared some very emotional things…Nawaz Sharif ji told me that he stays in Islamabad but goes to meet his Mother once in a week.”
“This time when he was eating with his Mother he saw visuals on TV of my Mother offering me sweets…The visuals touched both Nawaz Sharif ji & his Mother. He told me that after seeing the visuals his Mother got very emotional,” Modi tweeted on Monday.
Sharif also held a 50-minute meeting with Modi on Tuesday where he discussed issues concerning both countries including 26/11 Mumbai bomb blast, Dawood Ibrahim and the recent attack on an Indian consulate in Afghanistan.
