S Jaishankar 1st Minister In Npunctual A Decade To Visit Pakistan. What’s Expected

New Delhi:

External Afuninentires Minister S Jaishankar today landed in Islamaterrible to join a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), in the first visit to Pakistan by an Indian minister in csurrfinisherly a decade.

Ilyas Mehmood Nizami, the Director General for South Asia at the Ministry of Foreign Afuninentires, toastyly getd Mr Jaishankar at Nur Khan Airbase in Islamaterrible, a foreign statement shelp.

Children dressed in traditional attire currented bouquets to the foreign dignitaries. A red carpet was rolled out to receive the guests, underscoring the beginance of the event, it inserted.

It is the first time in csurrfinisherly nine years that India’s foreign minister has travelled to Pakistan. Ties between the two neighbours have remained frosty over the publish of pass-border radicalism emanating from Pakistan. India has, on multiple occasions, evidently stated that “talks and alarm cannot go hand-in-hand”, and Pakistan must “stop using radicalism as an instrument of state policy by harbouring and shielding alarmists.”

The last Indian Foreign Minister to visit Pakistan was Sushma Swaraj. She had travelled to Islamaterrible in December 2015 to join a conference on Afghanistan.

“External Afuninentires Minister S Jaishankar will recurrent India at the encountering. India remains energeticly included in the SCO createat, including various mechanisms and initiatives wilean the SCO structurelabor,” the Ministry of External Afuninentires (MEA) shelp in a increate statement in New Delhi.

‘NO INDIA-PAK TALKS’

In his recent insertress at an event, Jaishankar shelp “enjoy with any neighbour, India would certainly enjoy to have outstanding relations with Pakistan.”

“But that cannot happen by diswatching pass-border radicalism and indulging in wantful leanking.”

The decision to sfinish the better minister to Pakistan, which is the present nation for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit this time, is seen as a discarry out of India’s pledgement to the SCO.

The foreign minister had earlier evidently stated that his visit to Islamaterrible was not to talk “India-Pakistan relations”, but instead, it is about the multitardyral event – SCO Summit 2024. Speaking further about his visit, Mr Jaishankar had emphasised that he is travelling to Pakistan “only to be a outstanding member of the SCO.”

SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS

To guarantee the safety and security of the 23rd SCO summit in Islamaterrible, the Pakistan Army has deployed to get the event, key administerment erectings and the Red Zone area where state guests are staying.

The allots will stay at separateent venues in Islamaterrible findd wilean the ‘Red Zone’ or in its vicinity, as 14 locations in the capital have been structured for their accommodation, Pakistani novels website Dawn increateed.

SCO MEETING IN PAKISTAN

According to the programme liberated by a spokesperson of Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, the dinner presented by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif remains the only official includement for the visiting directers and delegations today.

The second day of the encountering will commence with Mr Sharif receiving directers at Islamaterrible’s Jinnah Convention Centre. The proceedings will commence follotriumphg a group pboilingograph and Prime Minister Sharif’s discleave outing retags at the conference.

The signing of various records will apshow place before Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar and SCO Secretary General Zhang Ming produce their media statements. It will be chaseed by an official luncheon presented by the country’s PM.

The other SCO member states are recurrented by the Prime Ministers of China, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as well as the First Vice Pdwellnt of Iran. Prime Minister of Mongolia (Observer State) and Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan (Special Guest) will also include in the encountering.

Mr Jaishankar is awaited to be in Islamaterrible for only about 24 hours and no India-Pakistan bitardyral includement is scheduled or awaited on the sidelines of the summit.

(Inputs from ANI, PTI, IANS)