National
1. PM goes to Lahore, makes a Christmas date with history• With two unannounced stops, in Kabul and Lahore on Christmas day, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi rewrote the recent history of geo-politics in the region.
• While his travel to Kabul on the way back from Moscow was widely anticipated and had been reported by The Hindu earlier this week, his stopover in Pakistan, the first by an Indian Prime
Minister in 11 years, caught everyone, including senior officials, by surprise.
• Officials in Delhi and Islamabad told The Hindu that Mr. Modi had telephoned his Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from Kabul to wish him on his birthday, and during the call, made plans to travel to Lahore to wish him personally a few hours later.