After a long time, the National Security Advisors (NSA) of India and Pakistan will meet
After a long time, the National Security Advisors (NSA) of India and Pakistan will meet at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) starting in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan on Wednesday.
However, any bilateral meeting between the two has already been to ruled out in this two-day meeting.
In this meeting, mainly the restoration of peace in Afghanistan is to discussed.
Pakistan’s Moheed Yusuf is joining India’s National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval.
According to the meeting’s schedule, Ajit Doval is to meet his Russian counterpart here. A schedule of about two and a half hours has also been fixing for this.
In March and April this year, the External Affairs Minister of India, Dr. S. Jaishankar, and the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, met at the Heart of Asia meeting in Dushanbe.
However, even then there was no formal bilateral dialogue between the two. Since February, there is a ceasefire at the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir between the two countries.
There are eight member countries of SCO. This includes India, Pakistan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, China, and Uzbekistan.
India and Pakistan were to make full members in the year 2017. The meeting of this organization was hosted by India in November 2020. It is chaire by Tajikistan for 2021.
The SCO meeting to be held at the present time is also very special because in recent days there has been a lot of bitterness between Pakistan and Afghanistan regarding Afghanistan. The round of allegations and counter-allegations against each other is going on from both the sides.
The special thing is also that this round has started somewhere only after India became an important member of Afghanistan but the ongoing peace talks.