Singh, Sharif invite each other for official visits

Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan today extended invitations to each other for official visits as they meet here for the first time to discuss ways to normalise bilateral ties.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif at New York's Palace Hotel in midtown Manhattan on the margins on UN General Assembly session.
"Sharif invited Prime Minister Singh to visit Pakistan and Singh invited Sharif to visit India. Both accepted the invitations," National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon said during a media briefing after the meeting.
"No dates have been set yet," he said.
Prime Minister Singh's ancestral hometown is at Gah in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

Sharif had earlier said that he would be happy to welcome Singh in Pakistan to visit ancestral hometown in Gah.