Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in an interview with an Indian TV network on the day of elections that returned him to power, said he would love to visit India if invited and then, with a disarming chuckle, added that he would go even without an invitation.

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He insisted, like an American teenager who's signed the "True Love Waits" vow of celibacy until their wedding day, that we must be patient, stop fumbling and hold on for the manifesto, while fluttering his eyelids so that we all know that he's been round the back of the bike shed with the Guardian, and it's all true.

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