Shehbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, will be invited by India to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) conference in May of this yea, reports said. Invitations to the SCO summit in Goa were delivered to the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China on Wednesday, Bilawal Bhutto and Qin Gang.
The invites were delivered in accordance with the established procedure, however it is unknown whether Bilawal Bhutto and Qin Gang will attend.
๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐ค๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐๐
It will be the first such trip from Islamabad to India since 2011 if the Pakistani prime minister or foreign minister chooses to attend the meeting in person. In 2011, India was visited by Pakistan's then-foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar.
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After India's warplanes attacked a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist training camp in Pakistan's Balakot in response to the Pulwama terror attack in February 2019, relations between India and Pakistan became very strained.
After India stated in August 2019 that it will revoke Jammu and Kashmir's special powers and split the former state into Union regions, relations between the two countries further deteriorated.
๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐
India is the current chair of nine-nation SCO. Later this year, the SCO foreign ministers' meeting is anticipated to take place in Goa.
The summit and important ministerial meetings will be held in Goa during the first week of May. India currently holds the chairmanship of the nine-member organisation, which it assumed last September. China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are also members of the SCO. Along with the other Central Asian nations, invitations have also been addressed to the foreign ministries of Russia and China.
