India on Friday announced that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to Pakistan to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in mid-October.

This will be the first visit of India's foreign minister to Pakistan in nearly nine years as the ties between the two neighbours remained frosty over the Kashmir issue and cross-border terrorism emanating from the neighbouring country, reported news agency PTI. The last Indian external affairs minister to visit Pakistan was Sushma Swaraj. She had travelled to Islamabad in December 2015 to attend a conference on Afghanistan.