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Bilawal Bhutto To Attend Goa SCO Meet; Who Was The Last Pakistan Leader To Visit India?

New Delhi: Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting next month in Goa.

Bhutto will lead the country’s delegation to the annual meeting, to be held on May 4 and 5 in Goa, according to Pakistan’s Foreign ministry.

It will be the first visit by any Pakistan leader to India since former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s trip in 2014. And the last time a Pakistani Foreign minister had travelled to India was Hina Rabbani Khar in 2011.

India, which took over rotating presidency of SCO in 2022-2023, invited Pakistan’s Foreign minister through the Indian Embassy in Islamabad.

SCO, an inter-governmental organization established in Shanghai in June 2001, comprises of eight members, including 6 founding members China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

India and Pakistan joined SCO as full members in 2017.

OB Bureau

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