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Jaishankar has already made it clear that there will be no bilateral talks with Pakistan in the SCO summit.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is in Pakistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting. This is his first tour to Pakistan. He reached the neighboring country on Tuesday, where he was welcomed by children and Pakistani officials at Islamabad airport.
After this, in the evening, PM Shahbaz Sharif hosted a dinner for the SCO leaders. It was here that PM Shahbaz and Jaishankar met. Pakistani PM shook hands. Last year, at an SCO meeting in Goa, Jaishankar had greeted the then Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto and avoided shaking hands.
Jaishankar will attend the photo session of group leaders at 10 am today. After this, the SCO meeting will start from 10:30 am, which will continue till 1 pm. After this meeting there will be lunch at 2 pm. Jaishankar will leave for India from Pakistan at 4 pm.
Heads of eight member countries are participating in this SCO meeting. At the same time, the Foreign Minister of India and the Trade Minister of Iran will attend the meeting. Earlier, Iran's Vice President Mohammad Raza Asif was supposed to attend the meeting but his visit to Pakistan was postponed at the last moment.
After almost 9 years, a top leader from India has visited Pakistan.
Jaishankar and Chinese PM met According to the report of Times of India, there was not much conversation between Shahbaz and Jaishankar during the dinner. During dinner, Jaishankar and Chinese PM Li Qiang also met and both talked for some time.
After dinner, a cultural program also took place for the SCO leaders. In this a Pakistani artist presented Bharatnatyam. During this, Pakistani PM Shahbaz Sharif was seen sitting with the Prime Ministers of China and Kazakhstan.
Earlier, the Pakistan government uploaded a video of Jaishankar's arrival for the SCO meeting, the caption of which read – 'There will be exciting talks ahead.' However, Jaishankar has already ruled out any bilateral talks. In such a situation, there is very little scope for him to talk to any Pakistani leader.
A four-member delegation from India has reached Pakistan.
Former PM of Pakistan said – this is a good opportunity Regarding Jaishankar's visit, former interim PM of Pakistan Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar said that his visit to Islamabad is historic. This can create an opportunity for dialogue between the two countries. However, he also said that he does not expect bilateral talks between the two countries.
Kakar said that both the countries should start talks without any delay. Asked why Pakistan did not propose a meeting, Kakar said it could cause harm to the government. Imran Khan's party PTI can take advantage of this.
Pakistan tour after 8 years and 10 months Foreign Minister Jaishankar is the first leader of India to visit Pakistan after 8 years and 10 months. That's why this tour is special. Before that, on 25 December 2015, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited Pakistan. Then Modi had reached Lahore on a surprise visit.
He met Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif. Since his visit, no Prime Minister or Minister of India has visited Pakistan.
In 2016, just a year after Modi's visit, four terrorists entered the brigade headquarters of the Indian Army in Uri. 19 soldiers of the Indian Army were martyred in this attack.
Since then, tension had increased in the relations between the two countries. After the removal of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir in 2019, relations between the two countries deteriorated further. However, despite all this, the then Foreign Minister of Pakistan Bilawal Bhutto had come to India last year to participate in the meeting of foreign ministers of SCO countries in Goa.
What is it about SCO that India and Pakistan put aside their mutual enmity and go to its meetings… Answers to 3 important questions related to the organization.
Bilawal and Jaishankar did not even shake hands in the meeting of foreign ministers held in Goa.
Question 1: When was SCO formed, why was there a need to create it? answer: In 1991, the Soviet Union broke into many parts. After this, a border dispute started between the neighboring countries of Russia due to the boundary not being fixed. To prevent this dispute from taking the form of war, Russia felt the need to form an organization.
Russia also feared that China might occupy the lands of small countries that were members of the Soviet Union bordering it. In such a situation, Russia formed an organization in 1996 along with China and former Soviet countries. It was announced in Shanghai city of China, hence the organization was named Shanghai Five. Initially the 5 member countries of this organization included Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan.
When the border disputes between these countries were resolved, it was given the form of an international organization. In 2001, another country Uzbekistan announced to join these five countries, after which it was named Shanghai Cooperation Organization i.e. SCO.
Question 2: When and why did India join SCO? answer: After the formation of SCO, India was also invited to join it. However, at that time India had refused to participate in it.
Meanwhile, China started a campaign to make Pakistan a member of this organization. Due to this, Russia began to fear China's increasing influence in the organization. Then Russia also advised India to join this organization.
After this, in 2017, India became a permanent member of this organization. There are 5 more reasons for India to join this organization…
- India's trade with SCO member countries was increasing, so to improve relations with this organization.
- If India wants to increase its reach in Central Asia then Shanghai Cooperation Organization is important. The reason for this is that all the countries of Central Asia sit together in this organization.
- India has no other organization to present its stand on Afghanistan. If India has to decide its role in Afghanistan then it needs the cooperation of all these countries.
- India needs the cooperation of SCO countries to end the problem of terrorism and drugs.
- The countries of Central Asia also needed India in this organization. He did not want small countries so that only China and Russia would dominate the organization. For this he wanted India as a balancing power.
Question 3: What is the main objective and work of SCO?
answer: When the SCO countries resolved the border dispute, its purpose changed. Now its main objective was to save the member countries from three types of evils…
- separatism
- terrorism
- religious fundamentalism
Russia felt that fundamentalist thinking should not increase in the countries around it. Due to their proximity to Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran, terrorist organizations also started growing in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, such as IMU i.e. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and HUT in Kyrgyzstan. In such a situation, Russia and China continued the fight against these three types of devils through SCO. Apart from this, the main work of this organization is also to strengthen mutual trust and relations between the member countries. This organization is working to increase cooperation among the member countries in areas like politics, trade, economy, science, technology, energy, environmental protection.
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