India, Sept. 2 -- Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir formally met Chinese President Xi Jinping, as part of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's delegation, on Tuesday.

The meeting comes a day after a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), at which India's PM Narendra Modi was among the attendees, concluded with a joint declaration condemning the Pahalgam attack in particular, and terrorism in general.

Pakistan was not expressly mentioned but PM Modi spoke of "some nations" using terror as policy. And the declaration was a big step forward from India's perspective for Pahalgam to be mentioned directly, as the Modi government has blamed Pakistan for the attack in April. Indian forces carried out retaliatory strikes on...