India, Aug. 31 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Shehbaz Sharif did not share any bonhomie during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in China - and that was along expected lines - but they ended up in the same camera frame at the official reception in the evening, in Tianjin on Sunday. Eight spots apart.

Modi was warmly welcomed by Chinese President Xi Jinping as they held bilateral talks too, in a reset of ties in the backdrop of trade tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.

The realignment, however, did not extend to China's longtime ally and India's western neighbour Pakistan. The Indian side in its briefing said Modi raised the issue of cross-border terrorism in his bilateral meeting...