Guwahati, Sept. 2 -- Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir formally met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday as part of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's delegation, following the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin.

The SCO summit, which concluded a day earlier, saw India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi among the attendees. The summit issued a joint declaration condemning terrorism, specifically highlighting the Pahalgam attack.

While Pakistan was not mentioned by name, PM Modi referred to "some nations" allegedly using terror as a policy-a reference widely interpreted as pointing toward Pakistan. India's government had blamed Pakistan for the April Pahalgam attack, which was followed by retaliatory ...