New Delhi will host Pakistan’s Climate Change Minister Musadik Malik at a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Civilisational Dialogue on Nov. 20-22, a rare federal-minister visit after deadly 2025 fighting.
Former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s May 2023 trip to Goa for an SCO meeting was the most recent India visit by a Pakistani federal minister, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said the government supports dialogue among civilizations and contact between people through the SCO framework, guided by mutual respect.
AFP traced the start of the four-day conflict in May 2025 to an attack on tourists in Kashmir that killed more than 24 people, most of them Hindu. India alleged Pakistani support for the attack, a claim Pakistan rejected. AFP reported that diplomatic reprisals were followed by exchanges involving missiles, drones and artillery. More than 70 people died in the fighting, the agency said.
India and Pakistan have fought several wars since independence in 1947, with Kashmir among their main points of dispute, AFP reported. Both countries claim the region.
The SCO Civilisational Dialogue is scheduled for Nov. 20-22 in New Delhi.
