Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent a letter to his newly elected Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan and conveyed that India is looking for constructive and meaningful engagement with the neighbouring nation.
The prime minister said India was committed to peaceful neighbourly relations with Pakistan, official sources said, quoting from the letter.
Modi also stressed the need to work for a terror-free South Asia, they said.
The prime minister conveyed to Khan that India was looking for constructive and meaningful engagement with Pakistan, the sources said.
Khan was sworn in as Pakistan's 22nd prime minister on Friday.
Sixteen ministers from Imran Khan's 21-strong Cabinet were sworn-in on Sunday as the formation of Pakistan's federal government was completed after the general elections.
President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to the 16 federal ministers. Khan was by his side. The new Cabinet has 16 federal ministers and five advisers to the prime minister, most of them previously held key posts in the regime of former dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.
The ministers who took the oath include Shah Mehmood Qureshi as the foreign minister, defence minister Pervez Khattak, finance minister Asad Umer, information minister Fawad Chaudhry, education minister Shafqat Mehmood, health minister Amir Kiani, religious minister Nooru Haq Qadri and railway minister Sheikh Rashid.
(With PTI inputs)