QINGDAO: President Mamnoon Hussain and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modiexchanged pleasantries during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)summit in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao.

The two leaders were photographed shaking hands after a press conference byChinese President Xi Jinping.

Hussain and Modi are among leaders who attended the media briefing afterthe culmination of the 18th SCO summit.

Earlier, Jinping gave the leaders of Pakistan and India a “special welcome”to their first summit of the SCO, since their countries joined the grouplast year.

Founded in 2001, the SCO also includes the former Central Asian Sovietrepublics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.