India's foreign minister S Jaishankar will attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Pakistan this month, his ministry has announced. This will be the first visit by a high ranking Indian minister to Pakistan in nearly a decade.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will visit Pakistan to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit this month, the Indian foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday.

“Yes, I am scheduled to go to Pakistan in the middle of this month for the meeting of the SCO—the heads of government meeting,” Jaishankar said while delivering the Sardar Patel Lecture on Governance, organised by the IC Centre for Governance in New Delhi, the report said.

India's foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will not discuss bilateral relations when he visits Pakistan this month, the first such visit in nearly a decade, for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit.

Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar will attend the SCO heads of government meeting in Islamabad on October 15-16 but will not discuss bilateral ties with Pakistan. Jaishankar underscored Pakistan's continued support for terrorism as a barrier to SAARC summits and emphasized regional integration efforts with neighboring countries like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.