Ahead of foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee's visit to Pakistan later this week, Prime Minister today said that he hoped that relations between the two countries became “so friendly” that “political borders are no longer economic and social barriers”.

Speaking at the AGM of FICCI today, the Prime Minister, while highlighting that Indian economy had to be “more closely integrated with that of our immediate and distant neighbours” said that relationship with Pakistan should become “so friendly, and that we generate such an atmosphere of trust and confidence between each other, that the two nations would be able to agree on a treaty of peace, security and friendship”

Clearly looking out for a lasting solution with Pakistan, the PM, while retaining respective national identities, envisaged a day when “one can have breakfast in Amritsar, lunch in Lahore and dinner in Kabul”.

He said “that is how my forefathers lived. That is how I want our grandchildren to live”.