Today's Big StoryPM Narendra Modi set for action-packed day 2 in SCO summit
A day after his bilateral meetings with China and Russia on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Kyrgyz's capital Bishkek, PM Modi will be meeting with the heads of states of Iran, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan.
Modi, who opted to take a longer route to the Bishkek only to avoid entering Pakistani airspace, didn’t see eye to eye with counterpart PM Imran Khan who is also attending the summit.Follow the live updates here.Meeting with China: The Prime Minister in his “extremely fruitful meeting" with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday reiterated his stand that Pakistan should take concrete action against terror before talks can resume.
“Pakistan needs to create an atmosphere free of terror, but at this stage we do not see it happening,’ he was quoted by foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale as saying.
Modi’s meeting with Jinping comes a little over a month after China lifted its technical hold on the listing of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar as global terrorist.Snubbed neighbor: Meanwhile, PM Imran Khan in an interview with a Russian news agency said that Pakistan’s relationship with India is probably at its “lowest point".
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