According to Pakistan, Jaishankar engages in "casual conversations" with Sharif and Dar, "breaking the ice."
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had ' casual conversations' with Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and foreign minister Ishaq Dar on the sidelines of the SCO Summit. Interior minister and Pakistan Cricket Board's chairman, Mohsin Naqvi, asked EAM for improving cricketing ties between the two countries
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Although there was no official bilateral meeting between India and Pakistan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who was in Islamabad for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit on October 15 and 16, did have "casual conversations" over the previous two days on the conclave's fringes with Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar.
According to diplomatic sources cited in a PTI article, Jaishankar and Dar had two "casual conversations" during the past two days, but there was no sign that the icy ties between India and Pakistan were about to warm up.
The diplomatic sources quoted in the report further stated that there was a brief pull-aside between Jaishankar and Dar at an informal dinner reception hosted by Sharif at his residence for the SCO delegates on Tuesday.
Improving cricketing ties
Pakistan’s interior minister Mohsin Naqvi, who is also the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), joined Jaishankar and Dar.
During his conversation with Jaishankar, Naqvi had brief exchanges related to improving cricketing ties between the two countries as a way of “breaking the ice”, the sources further said.
Pakistan is planning to host the Champions Trophy next year and wants India’s participation. The relationship between the two countries has been strained since the unsuccessful attempt to resume dialogue in 2015 and further deteriorated after India’s revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status in 2019.
