Leaders from South Asian nations along with Pakistani Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, who attended inauguration of Indian premier Narendra Modi, left for their respective countries on Tuesday (May 27).

Modi had invited leaders of Pakistan and other heads of SAARC member nations to his inauguration in an unprecedented move.

Modi was sworn in as India's prime minister in an elaborate ceremony at New Delhi's presidential palace on Monday (May 26), after a sweeping election victory that ended two terms of rule by the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.

PM Modi met his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday in an effort to rebuild diplomatic and economic ties between the South Asian nations.

Sharif and south Asian leaders also met Indian President Pranab Mukherjee at the presidential palace, Rashtrapati Bhavan, with an official delegation and discussed bilateral and multilateral issues, concerning the countries.

The Pakistani premier was followed by Rajapaksa, Prime Minister of Mauritius Navin Ramgoolam, Maldives President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai.

Modi held one-to-one meetings with the SAARC heads of the states for a few minutes as part of courtesy call.

Millions of Indians watched the inauguration live on television as the 63-year-old Hindu nationalist leader, once thought of as too divisive to lead the world's largest democracy, took his oath along with his cabinet members in the palace forecourt.

The low-caste son of a tea stall-owner, Modi won India's first parliamentary majority after 25 years of coalition governments, giving him ample room to advance economic reforms that started over two decades ago but stalled in recent years.