Pakistan's Prime Minister to attend swearing-in of Indian counterpart

(CNN) -- In an unprecedented move, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will travel to New Delhi to attend the oath-taking ceremony Monday for India's new leader, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi will be sworn in as the head of the world's largest democracy after his Bharatiya Janata Party won a resounding election victory. As well as attending the ceremony, Sharif will have a bilateral meeting with Modi on Tuesday and will also meet with Indian President Shri Pranab Mukherjee, according to a statement from Pakistan's Foreign Ministry. Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry is expected to accompany Sharif, according to the statement. India's next prime minister, Narendra Modi, greets supporters at his mother's home in Gandhinagar on Friday, May 16. Modi is the leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP. After a five-week-long election, the BJP swept the ruling Indian National Congress from power. Official results were expected later Friday. India's election: The largest in history India's external affairs ministry said Wednesday that invitations had been extended to the heads of all eight countries in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, which includes Sharif.

It's time Pakistan and India embraced each other and put their differences aside and work together to help each other. This is a good opportunity to restart a fresh new relationship with a fresh new government.

India PM Narendra Modi getting around  8)

Mr Modi enjoys strong support among senior leaders in the right-wing Hindu organisation

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which is the ideological fountainhead to :

a host of hardline Hindu organisations, including the BJP.

He worked for many years with the RSS as a "pracharak", or propagandist, and some say that this

training made him into the firebrand orator he is today.

                             

Under his watch, more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in religious violence

in 2002 when Hindu rioters took to the streets of Gujarat to avenge the deaths

of 59 Hindu pilgrims in a train fire, allegedly started by Muslims.

Critics say Mr Modi did little to stop the violence.......

When then prime minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India in the 1970s,

the RSS was banned and several of its leaders and activists were jailed.

Mr Modi disguised himself as a Sikh to escape the authorities ..

Young School Boy asks about Shri Narendra Modi's picture dressed as Sikh