India invited CJP Umar Ata Bandial and FM Bilawal to attend meeting of SCO this year

Islamabad: (Staff Reporter) India has invited Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial and Foreign Minister (FM) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to attend the meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) scheduled for later this year. The SCO is a key regional forum comprising Pakistan, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and India. It focuses primarily on the areas of trade, finance, commerce and socio-economic cooperation among SCO member states.

According to the source, currently the presidency of the forum is held by India, which will organize a series of events, including a conference of the chief justices of member states and a moot of the foreign ministers, this year. The chief justices of the SCO will meet in March while the meeting of the foreign ministers is scheduled for May in Goa. Sources said CJP Bandial and FM Bilawal have not yet responded to the invitations.

As per details, relations between the nuclear-armed neighboring countries have remained heightened since Indian revoked the special status of the occupied Jammu and Kashmir.