New Delhi: Amid simmering tensions between India and Pakistan, the leaders of the two countries - Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif – are likely to meet in June.
A senior Pakistani official told The Express Tribune that the meeting of Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, in June is “very much possible.
The tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated after a Pakistani military court sentenced alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav to death.
The official also "made it clear that Pakistan did not want that the issue of India spy to undermine the overall bilateral engagement process" with India.
"Kulbhushan is just one element. The main point is that involvement of Indian state in sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan has been established. Yet, the government's policy of reaching out to its neighbors has not changed.” the official said, according to the Pakistani newspaper.
Notably, India is yet to receive copies of the Pakistani charge sheet against Jadhav and the copy of the judgment sentencing him to death.
India said it has sought consular access to Jadhav 13 times earlier, but the permission was refused each time.
Jadhav, sentenced to death by Pakistan's military court on April 10, faced seven charges, including sponsoring IED attacks on important installations and attacks on Shias in Pakistan -- according to the list read out by the country's foreign policy chief Sartaj Aziz on Friday.
As a fallout of the case, India had called off bilateral maritime security talks with Pakistan scheduled for April 17.
(With Agency inputs)
