Pakistan on Friday paid tributes to former PM Manmohan Singh who passed away on Thursday at AIIMS. In a post on X, Pakistani Foreign Minister said that Manmohan Singh will be remembered for his approach to regional issues.

I T IS FITTING that Manmohan Singh, who unshackled Indian trade and industry as the country’s finance minister in 1991, was the son of an importer. His father’s firm in Peshawar brought dry fruit and spices to India from Afghanistan.

Gah, a village in Pakistan’s Punjab province, is mourning the loss of former PM Manmohan Singh. It was in this tiny village that Singh spent his childhood, before Partition forced his family to relocate to India.

Manmohan Singh, who has died aged 92, was the technocrat behind the economic reforms that led to India’s emergence as a world power, first as finance minister and latterly as prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014.

By Devjyot Ghoshal and Matthias Williams NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Described as a "reluctant king" in his first stint as prime minister, the soft-spoken Manmohan Singh, who died on Thursday at the age of 92,

For an emotional reunion with ex-PM Dr Manmohan Singh, Raja Mohammad Ali arrived in Delhi in May 2008 and the two shared a heartwarming embrace, followed by symbolic gifts.

From a small village in undivided Punjab to Cambridge University and the corridors of power in New Delhi, Dr. Manmohan Singh's journey is nothing short of extraordinary.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid his respects to the former prime minister on Friday (December 27) as the country began a seven-day period of mourning for its “reluctant king”, a title the soft-spoken Singh earned during his first stint as the country's leader.