New Delhi: The Indian Government will invite the Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit which will hold later this year. According to the Government sources, all eight members and four observer states of SCO will be invited for the regional summit.

The SCO is a China led eight member economic and security bloc to which India and Pakistan were admitted in 2017. The group was founded in 2001 by Russia, China, Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The Government’s announcement today comes hours after Pakistan’s efforts to raise Jammu and Kashmir at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) through China failed on Wednesday as most members of the UNSC said it was not the place to discuss the issue. This was China’s third initiative to hold a closed door meeting to discuss Jammu and Kashmir at the UNSC. The Government has condemned the move by Pakistan calling its efforts a misuse of UNSC.