Pakistan says minister to make rare India visit for regional talks

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will send a minister to India for a regional conference next week, Islamabad said Saturday, the first such visit since the two foes fought a four-day conflict last year.

Climate Change Minister Musadik Malik will represent Pakistan at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Civilizational Dialogue in New Delhi from November 20 to 22, the Pakistani foreign ministry said in a statement.

It will be the first trip to India by a Pakistani federal minister since former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari attended an SCO meeting in Goa in May 2023.

Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan share a deep distrust and have fought multiple wars since gaining independence in 1947, primarily over the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir, which both countries claim.