Afghanistan, Nov. 15 -- Pakistan will send Climate Change Minister Musadik Masood Malik to New Delhi for a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) forum from November 20 to 22, marking the first visit by a Pakistani federal minister to India in more than three years.
Reuters reported on November 14 that Pakistan had nominated Malik to represent the country at the SCO Civilisational Dialogue, the first such ministerial visit since former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari attended an SCO meeting in Goa in May 2023. The announcement comes amid strained relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbours following their military confrontation in May 2025.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry confirmed the nomination in a statement on Saturday, sa...