Times of Islamabad

Pakistan India Foreign Ministers held informal dialogue with a sweet gift from Indian EAM Sushma Swaraj

Pakistan India Foreign Ministers held informal dialogue with a sweet gift from Indian EAM Sushma Swaraj

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan India Foreign Ministers held informal dialogue with asweet gift from Indian EAM Sushma Swaraj.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and his Indian counterpart SushmaSwaraj held an informal dialogue on the sideline of Shanghai CooperationOrganisation (SCO) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday.

“Today [I] met Sushma Ji. She had a complaint that we sometimes talk in abitter manner. She brought sweets today so we could also speak sweetly,”Qureshi was quoted as saying by the Foreign Office.

“We made it clear to her that we want all the matters resolved throughdialogue, and that Prime Minister Imran Khan had said in his very firstspeech that if India takes one step forward, we would take two stepsforward.”

“Even today we are ready for a dialogue,” he added.

The two foreign ministers’ interaction came at the end of a two-day SCOCouncil of Foreign Ministers’ meeting. They were initially scheduled tomeet on the sideline of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in NewYork last September.