The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit will be held in India in May, and India has sent an invitation to Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the foreign minister of Pakistan. Since 1947, two of India and Pakistan’s three total wars have been fought over the contentious Kashmir region. As a result of India’s revocation of Article 370, which gave Kashmir a special status and was governed by India, relations between India and Pakistan have deteriorated. There shouldn’t be too much interpreted into India’s invitation to Pakistan, according to Professor Ajay Darshan Behera of the Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi. According to Zaidi, there is a very slim chance that relations between Pakistan and India will detente.
Sharif and Modi both travelled to Uzbekistan for the previous SCO leaders’ conference in 2022. I don’t believe the current leadership in India would be publicly interested in or want to be seen talking with Pakistan in light of recent indications from Pakistan.
