Last week, in a rare snub to Pakistan, Jinping had skipped a customary meeting with Sharif in Astana after the murder of two Chinese nationals in Balochistan.
Sharif returned from Astana after attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit on the sidelines of which he met Presidents of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Russia. Conspicuously absent was a meeting with Xi.
Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi said Modi had asked the Pakistan Prime Minister about his and his mother's health, instead of giving a befitting reply to him for killing Indian soldiers.
India's membership was strongly pushed by Russia while Pakistan's entry into the grouping was backed by China. With the expansion of the grouping, the SCO will now represent over 40 per cent of humanity and nearly 20 per cent of the global GDP.
The two Prime Ministers are in the Kazakh capital to attend the two-day summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit.
Sartaj Aziz, the Pakistan Prime Minister's Advisor on Foreign Affairs, too did not respond to a query on a possible Modi-Sharif tete-e-tete.
Swaraj also emphasised that India was engaged with other countries on the issue of cross-border terrorism.
The Supreme Court judge made the observation after a lawmaker of the ruling PML-N made “threatening remarks” against judges.
The JIT was formed as a result of the case filed last year after the names of his children appeared in the leaked Panama Papers, which documented the offshore dealings of many of the world's rich and powerful.
Sharif, in his message to commemorate the historic nuclear tests, said that the day was an unforgettable day for Pakistan.
Both Modi and Sharif are expected to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meet to be held in Kazakhstan's capital Astana on June 8-9.
Former cricketer and Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, along with a section of Pakistani media, have deplored how its prime minister Nawaz Sharif was treated at the Arab Islamic American summit in Riyadh
US President Donald Trump had a brief encounter with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday and said he was pleased to meet him.
Donald Trump on Sunday acknowledged India as “victim of terrorism”. Speaking at the Arab-Islamic-US Summit at Riyadh, Trumps’ comment came before leaders of Islamic nations including Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
Released twice a year, the World Bank report sets out "recent developments across the economy and identifies risks and opportunities in the near-term future before focusing on a handful of key development challenges".
Opposition believes that Sharif will have to resign in the wake of the lawyers movement.
According to reports, Sharif may meet US President Donald Trump here who reached Riyadh today on his first trip abroad since taking office.
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