Last time Sushma went to Pakistan, when she met Nawaz Sharif, know what was that program

New Delhi : India on Friday announced that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will visit Pakistan in mid-October to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. This announcement was made by External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. Pakistan is hosting the SCO meeting this time. Before this, the last Indian External Affairs Minister to visit Pakistan was Sushma Swaraj. She went to Islamabad in December 2015 to attend a conference on Afghanistan.

Heart of Asia Conference

In 2015, Sushma Swaraj participated in the annual Heart of Asia conference. This conference was held in Pakistan on 7-8 December. At that time representatives of 14 countries were present there. Sushma’s visit came a few days after peace talks between India and Pakistan in Bangkok. Earlier, India had canceled a high-level meeting in August after months of tension over Kashmir. The Heart of Asia conference brings together Asian and other countries to discuss the future of Afghanistan and its neighbors. At that time, security cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan was considered important to counter the growing threat from the Taliban and other terrorists in the region.

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What did Sushma say then?

In her address at the summit, Sushma Swaraj had said that now is the time for us to demonstrate maturity and confidence in doing business with each other and strengthening regional trade and cooperation. he/she had said that India is ready to take forward its cooperation at a pace at which Pakistan is comfortable. But today we should at least resolve to help Afghanistan in line with the best traditions of a good neighbour.

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meeting nawaz sharif

The then External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had met Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the ‘Heart of Asia’ regional conference on Afghanistan. Swaraj also spoke to Nawaz Sharif’s foreign affairs advisor Sartaj Aziz. During Sushma’s visit, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar was also accompanying her. However, there was a controversy regarding the absence of Indian flag in the meeting with Nawaz Sharif.

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NSAs of both the countries met in Bangkok

Before Sushma Swaraj’s visit to Pakistan, a meeting of National Security Advisors of India and Pakistan Ajit Doval and Nasi Janjua was held in Bangkok. This meeting between the two lasted for about four hours. The special thing is that the current Foreign Minister and the then Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar was present in that meeting. In the meeting, representatives of both the countries discussed terrorism, Jammu and Kashmir and many major bilateral issues. Along with this, it was agreed to take forward ‘constructive relations’.