Pakistan invites PM Modi for 2024 SCO Summit; will Indian PM visit Islamabad?

Aug 30, 2024

Islamabad (Pakistan), August 30 (ANI): Pakistan has extended a formal invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting, scheduled for October this year in Islamabad, as reported by Geo News. While addressing a weekly news briefing, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, said that Pakistan has extended invitations to all heads of government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for the upcoming Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting in Islamabad. Baloch further said that Islamabad has also received some confirmations for the upcoming SCO moot to be hosted by Pakistan on October 15-16, according to Geo News. The official confirmation regarding Pakistan's invitations to the heads of the SCO member states came two days after Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said that the country would certainly invite PM Modi to the regional summit. Notably, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) had earlier denied the media reports suggesting that PM Modi would not attend the upcoming SCO summit in Pakistan. Meanwhile, India rubbishes such media reports suggesting that PM Modi will skip the summit, The SCO is a permanent intergovernmental international organization established on June 15, 2001 in Shanghai (PRC). Currently, the SCO countries includes nine Member States naming India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia etc.