New Delhi:

S Jaishankar, who’s in Pakistan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation or SCO Summit being hosted by Islamabad, had a short interplay with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as we speak at an official dinner held for all of the summit attendees.

The 2 leaders shook palms and exchanged a courtesy greeting as Mr Sharif welcomed Mr Jaishankar for the official dinner for SCO leaders. Few worlds had been spoken throughout the interplay that lasted lower than twenty seconds.

Ties between India and Pakistan have almost been non-existent within the final decade since Pak-based terrorists focused Indian navy institutions in a sequence of terror assaults in 2015 and 2016. India, which has for lengthy aimed for peace and stability within the area, has made it amply clear to Pakistan that “terror and talks can’t go hand-in-hand”, and that “dialogue and diplomacy can solely transfer ahead in an setting freed from terrorism.”

NEARLY A DECADE OF NO DIALOGUE

Mr Jaishankar’s go to to Pakistan is the primary by an Indian minister in almost ten years. The final go to by an Indian international minister was when Mr Jaishankar’s predecessor, Sushma Swaraj, had visited Islamabad for a convention on Afghanistan. Mr Jaishankar, who was then the international secretary had accompanied the then minister on her official go to.

Sushma Swaraj’s go to was adopted in fast succession by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who pushed for peace within the area by taking the initiative and giving a shock go to to then Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif at his ancestral house. However regardless of honest efforts by India, talks had been but once more derailed by a sequence of terror assaults on Indian soil by terrorists harboured and sheltered in Pakistan.

Earlier than he reached Islamabad, Mr Jaishankar mentioned at a press convention in New Delhi that his go to to the neighbouring nation was just for the SCO summit and that no bilateral talks with Islamabad will likely be happening.

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Mr Jaishankar had mentioned, “Like with any neighbour, India would definitely wish to have good relations with Pakistan, however that can’t occur by overlooking cross-border terrorism and indulging in wishful considering.” The choice to ship the senior minister to Pakistan, which is the host nation for the SCO Summit this time, is seen purely as a show of India’s dedication to the discussion board.

Pakistan is internet hosting the two-day SCO Council of Heads of Authorities (CHG) summit on October 15 and 16. “The SCO CHG assembly is held yearly and focuses on the commerce and financial agenda of the Organisation,” the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) had mentioned.