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Pakistani Foreign Minister to Make Rare Visit to India for SCO Meeting

© AP Photo / Mary AltafferPakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Thursday, March 9, 2023 at United Nations headquarters.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Thursday, March 9, 2023 at United Nations headquarters. - Sputnik India, 1920, 20.04.2023
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will travel to India in early May to attend a Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting, in what is the most senior-level visit by a Pakistani official in almost a decade.
"FM’s participation in Meeting reflects Pakistan’s continued commitment to SCO Charter & processes & the importance that Pakistan accords to the region in its foreign policy priorities," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said on social media.
© Photo : Twitter/ @ForeignOfficePkPakistani MoFA's tweet
Pakistani MoFA's tweet - Sputnik India, 1920, 20.04.2023
Pakistani MoFA's tweet
The foreign ministers of India, Russia, China, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan will meet in India’s Goa on May 4-5.
India is also expected to host a leaders’ summit in the summer chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Kashmir Issue Casts Shadow Over Indo-Pakistani Relationship

Ties between India and Pakistan have been plagued by territorial disputes and cross-border hostilities in the contested Kashmir region. Nawaz Sharif was the last Pakistani foreign minister to travel to India for Narendra Modi’s inauguration in 2014. Modi reciprocated the visit the following year.
An Indian paramilitary soldiers guards on a nearby mountain as others attend a memorial dedicated to soldiers who were killed in a 2019 attack at the Central Reserve Police Force headquarters in Lethpora, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. - Sputnik India, 1920, 16.04.2023
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