The talks mean the two countries are likely to renew confidence building measures first set out in the Lahore Declaration of 1999.

It said that India would support the Simla Agreement, Lahore Declaration, and the issue of cross-border terrorism.

February 21: Lahore Declaration is signed by Nawaz Sharif and A. B. Vajpayee.

In 1999, the party's government successfully signed the Lahore Declaration with India.

Although the Lahore Declaration was signed to improve relations in the aftermath of the 1998 nuclear tests, Pakistan's infiltration into Kashmir was discovered only three months later.

Following the Lahore Declaration in February 1999, relations briefly improved.

At those meetings, the two prime ministers signed the Lahore Declaration, in which they pledged efforts to resolve the Kashmir dispute.

The resultant Lahore Declaration espoused a commitment to dialogue, expanded trade relations and mutual friendship and envisaged a goal of denuclearised South Asia.

The Lahore Declaration is a bilateral agreement and governance treaty between India and Pakistan.

The Lahore Declaration brought added responsibility to both nations' leadership towards avoiding nuclear race, as well as both non-conventional and conventional conflicts.