Islamabad

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Secretary General Zhang Ming is visiting Pakistan on Friday to invite Pak Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to participate in the SCO annual summit to be held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on September 15-16.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also attend the summit, which will provide an opportunity to the prime ministers of Pakistan and India to come face-to-face.

It is for the first time in six years that the two prime ministers will be present under one roof and avail an opportunity to see each other.

According to news reports a chance meeting between Shehbaz and Modi couldn't be ruled out since both would be in the same compound for two days.

China, Pakistan, Russia, India, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan are full members of the group.

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A formal request for the meeting is yet to be placed by either of the two countries.