NEW DELHI, Nov 15: Pakistan Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Musadik Masood Malik will visit India to represent his country at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's first Civilisational Dialogue Forum in New Delhi.
The forum will be held from November 20 to 22. Pakistan's Foreign Ministry announced Malik's nomination on Saturday.
Representatives of SCO member countries will discuss dialogue among civilisations and ways to strengthen cultural understanding, the ministry said.
Pakistan remained committed to dialogue among civilisations and stronger people-to-people ties based on mutual respect, it said in a statement.
Malik will be the first Pakistani minister to visit India in more than three years, after former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari attended the SCO foreign ministers' meeting in Goa in May 2023.
Relations between India and Pakistan deteriorated further after the military conflict between the two countries in May 2025. Malik's visit for the SCO forum is being viewed as diplomatically significant.
Pakistan will host the next SCO summit during 2026-27. The organisation's summit is scheduled to be held in Islamabad in August 2027.
