External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is set to visit Pakistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government meeting on 15-16 October.
Pakistan, which currently holds the rotating chairmanship of the SCO Council of Heads of Government (CHG), will host the two-day in-person meeting.
In August, Pakistan extended an official invitation to India, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to attend the SCO Council of Heads of Government meeting.
The SCO Council of Heads of Government is the second-highest decision-making body within the organisation. Since 2017, India has been represented at this level by either the External Affairs Minister or the Defence Minister. Last year, Jaishankar attended the meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In 2020, when India hosted the meeting virtually, Pakistan was represented by its Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
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