Is PM Modi Visiting Pakistan For SCO Summit? Here’s MEA’s Response

PM Modi had attended the meeting of heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states in Uzbekistan in 2022. The MEA spokesperson did not say if he will attend the 2024 summit being hosted in Pakistan. (Image: Reuters)

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had earlier invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.

The external affairs ministry on Friday said it does not have an update on the invitation Pakistan extended to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit that is being held in Islamabad later this year.

“Yes, we have received an invitation from Pakistan for the SCO meeting. We don’t have an update on that. We will let you know the situation later,” Jaiswal told reporters during the weekly press conference.

Pakistan has officially extended an invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Council of Heads of Government meeting in Islamabad this October, according to a statement from the foreign office spokesperson.

Pakistan, as the current holder of the rotating chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government (CHG), will host the two-day SCO Heads of Government Meeting in October.

“Invitations have been sent to the heads of countries to participate in the meeting which will take place on October 15-16. An invitation has also been sent to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi,” Pakistan foreign office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said.