ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister of India Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will visit Pakistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit later this month in Islamabad.
The delegation led by Jaishankar will participate in the SCO Heads of Government meeting in Islamabad on October 15-16, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson said on Friday.
The visit will be the first by an Indian foreign minister to Pakistan in nearly a decade.
Earlier, the Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch confirmed that Islamabad has formally invited all heads of the SCO member states including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting.
“We have also received some confirmations from the participants for the SCO moot, scheduled to take place in Islamabad on October 15-16,” the FO spokesperson added.
“An invitation has also been sent to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi,” she said at her weekly news briefing in Islamabad. “It will be informed in due course which country has confirmed,” she added.
It is pertinent to mention that, Pakistan’s then-foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited India to attend the two-day meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers in May 2023. He was the first Pakistani foreign minister to visit India in almost 12 years.
