A Pakistani federal minister is set to visit India, the first trip of its kind in three years, timed to coincide with a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). The visit would be the first by a Pakistani federal minister since former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari travelled to Goa in May 2023 for an SCO meeting of foreign ministers.

Reports describe the trip as a rare one, coming against the backdrop of tensions between the two countries and marking the first such visit since Operation Sindoor. The last high-level visit by a Pakistani official to India was therefore the Goa trip, which places this travel in sharp contrast with the intervening period of limited high-level exchanges.S1S2