A day after India announced that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to Islamabad to attend a key meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) mid-October, he said he was goin

India announced on Friday that Jaishankar will represent the country at the SCO meeting in Islamabad during October 15-16, making him the first foreign minister to travel to Pakistan since 2015

A day after the government announced that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will lead the Indian delegation to Pakistan for a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Council of Heads of Government on October 15-16,

Yes, I am scheduled to go to Pakistan in the middle of this month and that is for the meeting of the SCO — the heads of government meeting," Jaishankar said during the Sardar Patel Lecture on Governance organised by the IC Centre for Governance in New Delhi.

External affairs minister S Jaishankar stated that during his visit for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, bilateral talks with Pakistan are ruled

The last time an Indian External Affairs Minister travelled to Pakistan was Sushma Swaraj in 2015 for the Heart of Asia conference and bilateral talks.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is set to visit Pakistan for the SCO summit on October 15-16, marking the first visit by an Indian foreign minister to the Islamic nation in nearly a decade

On a question related to the ongoing situation in West Asia, Jaishankar noted that it was not an opportunity, but rather a "cause of great concern and deep worry."