(Left to right) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev pose for a photo prior to a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Council of Heads of State in Bishkek on June 14, 2019.  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan exchanged pleasantries on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Bishkek on June 14, according to sources.

The pleasantries were “usual” in nature and were exchanged when the two were in the Leaders’ Lounge, the sources said.

This is the first such interaction between the two Prime Ministers amidst the chill in the bilateral relations, triggered by the terror attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama in February 2019.