Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif congratulates Narendra Modi for third term

In the first formal reaction from Pakistan to the formation of a new government in India, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and former premier Nawaz Sharif on Monday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on beginning his third term.

Pakistan had so far held off on sending a message to Modi on his election victory, with the Foreign



Office spokesperson saying last Friday it would be “premature” to talk of sending such a message as the process of forming a government was ongoing.

“Felicitations to @narendramodi on taking oath as the Prime Minister of India,” Sharif said in a brief post on X, a day after Modi and his council of ministers took oath on Sunday.