Pakistan to Send Climate Minister Malik to SCO Dialogue in New Delhi, First Ministerial Visit to India Since the 2025 Conflict
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday, November 14, that it has nominated Federal Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Musadik Masood Malik to represent Pakistan at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Civilisational Dialogue Forum in New Delhi from November 20 to 22.
India had invited Pakistan's Minister for National Heritage and Culture, Aurangzeb Khan Khichi; Islamabad nominated Malik instead. If the trip goes ahead, it will be the first visit to India by a Pakistani federal minister in more than three years, since then-Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari attended an SCO meeting in Goa in May 2023, and the first since the four-day India-Pakistan military conflict of May 2025. That confrontation followed the April 22, 2025 Pahalgam attack, which killed 26 people, and India's Operation Sindoor; the fighting ended with a ceasefire understanding on May 10.
Officials on both sides say the trip is strictly a multilateral engagement, with no bilateral meetings scheduled. Pakistan currently chairs the SCO Council of Heads of Government for 2026-27 and is due to host the SCO leaders' summit next year.
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan)
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan
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