Pakistan’s Climate Minister Musadik Masood Malik will represent the country at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Civilizational Dialogue to be held in New Delhi from November 20-22, 2026, the country’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. This marks the first visit by a Pakistani minister to India in more than three years.

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“The Government of Pakistan remains committed to promoting dialogue among civilisations and fostering people-to-people contacts within the SCO framework in a spirit of mutual,” reads the statement.

The last such high-level visit to India was by then Foreign Minister Bilawal ‌Bhutto Zardari, who ​travelled to Goa in ⁠May 2023 for a meeting of SCO Foreign Ministers.

The ‌SCO is a political and security union of countries spanning much of Eurasia, including China and Russia. The regional bloc has ‌10 current members, according to ​its website.

Relations between Islamabad and New Delhi ⁠have been strained since a four-day ⁠war in 2025, the worst violence in ‌decades.

(With inputs from Reuters.)