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For the eager twitter followers and reactors, armed with patriotic zeal, the Indian Prime Minister's Birthday Greetings to Nawaz Sharif were too much to handle. Modi called to wish his Pakistani counterpart on his birthday. Sharid turned 67 on Christmas Day, December 25, 2016. It is a birthday he shares with former Indian prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee and founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Modi's tweet came as a 'surprise' with the kind of war mongering over surgical stries indulged in by Modi and his cabinet colleagues, followed by his party cadres furing state and local elections.
“Birthday wishes to Pakistan PM Mr. Nawaz Sharif. I pray for his long and healthy life,” PM Modi tweeted.
This is how Twitterati reacted..
Modi's flamboyant gestures towards Pakistan, beginning with invitation to all SAARC leaders to a grand swearing in ceremony after his significant electoral victory in May 2016 have been followed by intimate 'gift' gestures of sarees from his mother to the Pakistani leader's mother and then a controversial pow wow with the Pakistani leader just before the the Pathankot terror attacks that had severely embarassed the Modi administration. It was in fact a Christmas time visit this time last year, when Mr Modi had travelled all the way to Lahore to wish Mr Sharif on an unscheduled visit. He had even attended a marriage ceremony of Sharif’s relative.
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