India, as a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), is obliged to invite Pakistan to the Council of Foreign Ministers’ meeting it is hosting in Goa and so it did. An invite was sent out to Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. 

Pakistani foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto’s biting words to his Indian counterpart on the sidelines of a UN meeting in New York last week came when he was asked to respond to India’s repeated labelling of Pakistan as “the host of Osama bin Laden” and the “perpetrator of terrorism.”