ISLAMABAD:
Islamabad hinted a ‘possible meet up’ at an upcoming regional cooperation summit in Russia, between Prime Minister Pakistan Nawaz Sharif and Prime Minister India Narendra Modi.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a Eurasian political, economic and military organisation, is scheduled to meet in Russia’s city of Ufa on July 9, 10 with both India and Pakistan, likely to be granted a full-membership.
“No side has contacted the other for a meeting, but in any multilateral setting, meetings among heads of states are a normal feature,” said Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Qazi Khalilullah at his weekly briefing on Thursday.
If it does take place, the meeting between PM Nawaz and Modi will be the first high-level contact between the two hyphenated neighbours since August last year.
While hostile anti-Pakistan statements from New Delhi made matters worse, there has been a lull since the Indian PM telephoned his Pakistani counterpart to convey greetings at the start of the holy month of Ramazan.