EAM S Jaishankar to visit Pakistan to attend SCO summit
THE JHARKHAND STORY DESK Advertisement New Delhi, Oct 4: The Ministry of External Affairs announced on Friday that External Affairs Minister…
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New Delhi, Oct 4: The Ministry of External Affairs announced on Friday that External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will visit Pakistan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.
During a briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated, “EAM Jaishankar will lead a delegation to Pakistan for the SCO summit which will be held in Islamabad on 15th and 16th October.”
Pakistan is set to host the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government (CHG).
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This will be Jaishankar’s first trip to Pakistan in his capacity as India’s foreign minister and the first official visit by an Indian foreign minister to Islamabad in nine years.
The last Indian foreign minister to travel to Pakistan was Sushma Swaraj, who headed the Indian delegation at the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process in Islamabad on December 8-9, 2015.
