SCO SUMMIT IS EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN INDIA-PAK RELATIONS Sources: By Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=150028667 Recently, S. Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister of India attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of Government summit in Islamabad, Pakistan. FM Jaishankar was welcomed by Shahbaz Sharif at the PM's residence. Jaishankar and Sharif shook hands and also had a brief conversation. During this summit, informal talks were held with Pakistan's PM and the Indian Foreign Minister. The atmosphere of the talks was said to have been more positive than that of previous meetings. This was the first visit of a top Indian minister to its neighboring country in almost a decade. The last Indian foreign minister to visit Pakistan was Sushma Swaraj. She went to Islamabad to participate in the 'Heart of Asia' conference on Afghanistan on 8-9 December 2015. The SCO su