{"id":435316,"date":"2024-10-05T08:15:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T03:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=435316"},"modified":"2024-10-05T08:15:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T03:15:47","slug":"indias-jaishankar-to-visit-pakistan-for-sco-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/indias-jaishankar-to-visit-pakistan-for-sco-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Jaishankar to visit Pakistan for SCO summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s External Affairs Minister to attend SCO meeting on October 15-16 in Islamabad<br \/>\n Islamabad<br \/>\nIndia\u2019s External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar, is set to visit Pakistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) \u2018Heads of Government\u2019 (HoG) meeting on October 15-16 in Islamabad.<br \/>\nThe Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) confirmed the news during its weekly press briefing on Friday.<br \/>\nPakistan, holding the rotating chairmanship of the SCO Council of Heads of Government, will host the in-person meeting of the regional bloc that includes India, China, Russia, Pakistan, and Central Asian nations. Jaishankar\u2019s visit comes after Pakistan extended an invitation to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier in August for the event.<br \/>\nThe SCO meeting is typically attended by heads of state or government, though India has been represented by senior ministers in recent years.<br \/>\nJaishankar himself participated in the 2022 meeting held in Bishkek.<br \/>\nSCO is a Eurasian political, economic, and security alliance, founded in 2001 by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. It has since expanded to include India, Pakistan, and Iran as full members, with Afghanistan, Belarus, and Mongolia as observers.<br \/>\nOn August 26, Pakistan sent a formal invitation to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the summit meeting of the heads of state and government of the SCO, scheduled in the middle of October in Islamabad.<br \/>\nThis is the first time that Pakistan had invited the Indian leader in eight years.<br \/>\nLast time Modi was invited for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit in 2016.<br \/>\nThe summit never took place after India boycotted it and since then the regional organisation is all but dysfunctional.<br \/>\nThe then foreign minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had visisted Goa for a meeting of the SCO foreign ministers in May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s External Affairs Minister to attend SCO meeting on October 15-16 in Islamabad Islamabad India\u2019s External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar, is set to visit Pakistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) \u2018Heads of Government\u2019 (HoG) meeting on October 15-16 in Islamabad. 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