Did not meet hands … Foreign Minister Jaishankar welcomed Bilawal with Namaste, Pakistan’s class on the issue of terrorism

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SCO Meeting: Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and China were greeted with Namaste by Foreign Minister S Jaishankar. Foreign Minister S Jaishankar greeted his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and China’s Chin Kang, who arrived on Friday at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) conference organized by India. The two-day meeting of SCO foreign ministers began on Thursday evening with a reception hosted by External Affairs Minister Jaishankar at the Taj Exotica resort.

Greetings from the Foreign Minister: The Foreign Minister greeted each incoming Foreign Minister not by shaking hands but with Namaste. According to some people in Bilawal’s delegation, Jaishankar, like other foreign ministers, shook hands with his Pakistani counterpart at the reception on Thursday evening. Bilawal reached Goa on Thursday. Significantly, he is the first Pakistani Foreign Minister to visit India in the last 12 years. In 2011, Pakistan’s then foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar visited India and held talks with her then counterpart SM Krishna.

There can be no justification for terrorism: At the SCO summit, External Affairs Minister Dr. Jaishankar said that terrorism is not taking the name of stopping. We firmly believe that there can be no justification for terrorism. It must be stopped in all its forms and manifestations including cross border terrorism. Countering terrorism is one of the core mandates of the SCO.

What is SCO: India hosted the SCO Foreign Ministers’ Conference as the current chair of the grouping. SCO is an influential economic and security grouping and has emerged as one of the largest intra-regional international organizations. The SCO was founded by the presidents of Russia, China, the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan at a conference in Shanghai in 2001. India and Pakistan became its permanent members in 2017.

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