Will Bilawal Bhutto come to India? Invitation sent for SCO meeting

Shanghai Cooperation Organization For the SCO meetings to be held this year, India Pakistan Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Sent invitation to. Presently it is chaired by India. Many meetings are to be held in India this year. The Chief Justice of the SCO will meet in March this year, while the Foreign Ministers’ meeting is to be held in Goa in May. Other member countries including the Foreign Minister of China have also been invited.

Sources say that although CJP Bandial and Bilawal Bhutto have not yet responded to this invitation of India. It has to be seen whether Pakistan participates in the SCO meeting or not, because the tension between the two countries remains intact.

SCO is a major regional forum which includes Pakistan, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and India. It primarily focuses on the areas of trade, finance, commerce and socio-economic cooperation among SCO member states.

If both the Chief Justice of Pakistan and the Foreign Minister visit India, it will be considered significant and will be the first high-profile visit from Pakistan in recent years. India will also host the SCO summit in June and it is almost certain that Pakistan will be invited.

Prior to this, India will host the SCO Film Festival in Mumbai from January 27 to 31, in which all its member countries except Pakistan will participate. It is noteworthy that Pakistan has not yet sent its entry. SS Rajamouli’s RRR and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi will be screened at the SCO Film Festival. Many other old films will also be screened.

Neeraj Shekhar, additional secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, said that we have received 14 entries from SCO countries in the competition category. Till now no entry has been received from Pakistan. He informed that 43 films will be screened in the non-competition section.