Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif expressed optimism about Foreign Minister Jaishankar's visit for the SCO meeting, reminiscing about Narendra Modi's vi

Jaishankar travelled to Islamabad on Tuesday for a nearly 24-hour trip to attend the conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), becoming the first Indian foreign minister to visit Pakistan in the last nine years amid continuing strain in ties.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said India and Pakistan "should live like good neighbours" and wished Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Islamabad. His remarks come after EAM Jaishankar visited Islamabad for SCO Summit.

India’s government is denying that it works with mobsters to target Sikh separatists in Canada as alleged publicly this week by Canadian officials in an escalating diplomatic dispute.

Sign up for the India Edition newsletter by Menaka Doshi – an insider's guide to the emerging economic powerhouse, and the billionaires and businesses behind its rise, delivered weekly.India said it is withdrawing High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma and other officials from Canada after disclosing they had been named as “persons of interest” in an investigation into the murder of a Sikh activist in British Columbia.

As India doubles down on rejecting the claim it is behind widespread crimes in Canada, its foreign ministry is accusing Ottawa of trying to smear New Delhi.