India, Nov. 14 -- Pakistan's climate minister Musadik Masood Malik is likely to visit India later this month after he was nominated to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) civilizational dialogue in Delhi, Pakistan's foreign ministry said on Saturday.

Announcing the minister's nomination for the event, Pakistan said it 'remains committed to promoting dialogue among civilisations and fostering people-to-people contacts within the SCO framework in a spirit of mutual respect.'

If Malik visits India, this could be a Pakistani minister's first visit to the neighouring country in more than three years. The ties between the two arch-rivals worsened in April 2025 following a terrorist attack in J&K's Pahalgam in which 26 civilians...