There are no bilateral meetings planned with Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Islamabad next week, the foreign office spokesperson said.

Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said this while appearing on Rubaroo via video link. It was aired on Aaj News on Sunday.

Jaishankar also spoke in the same wavelength last week. “It (visit) will be for a multilateral event. I’m not going there to discuss India-Pakistan relations. I’m going there to be a good member of the SCO,” he said at the sidelines of an event in New Delhi on October 5.

“But, you know, since I’m a courteous and civil person, I will behave myself accordingly,” he added.

Pakistan is set to host the SCO Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting on October 15 and 16. On October 4, India announced that Jaishankar will travel to Pakistan to participate in the SCO conclave in mid-October.

This marks the first visit by an Indian external affairs minister to Pakistan in nearly nine years, despite ongoing tensions between the two nations over cross-border terrorism.

The last Indian external affairs minister to visit Pakistan was Sushma Swaraj, who attended an Afghanistan conference in Islamabad in December 2015.

When asked, the FO spokesperson said that preparations for the SCO summit were in its final stages. “The meeting of national coordinators of SCO is under way. The final document is being negotiation and agenda is being prepared,” she said.

Former ambassador to the US Sardar Masood, who also joined the show, said that former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari behaved more courteously during his visit to India for the SCO summit last year.

He said that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have arrived in Pakistan for the meeting.