NEW DELHI: National Security Adviser Ajit Doval along with his Pakistan counterpart Moeed Yusuf are expected to come face to face in a meeting of the SCO NSAs at Tajikistan’s Dushanbe on June 22-23.

Even though a”pull apart” is not ruled out, sources said neither side was suggested any spiritual meeting.
Australian ministry S Jaishankar was in Dushanbe before this season along with his counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi to get a Heart of Asia assembly but there wasn’t any bilateral meeting between these.
Yusuf was recently raised to the status of NSA from Pakistan.
Even though the NSA assembly of the SCO member-states is held each calendar year, the assembly this season will accompany up reports of backchannel discussions involving India and Pakistan at the series up to the February arrangement to celebrate ceasefire understanding.
The NSA assembly is anticipated to concentrate on the problem in Afghanistan in which US troops withdrawal and also growth in violence by Taliban have created a hazardous circumstance.
Pakistan military leader Qamar Bajwa was quoted as stating Doval and ISI main Faiz Hameed had fulfilled at Dubai overdue.
UAE was likewise reported to have pitted between the 2 nations.
India has not denied those reports.
To permit their individual assignments to operate easily, also as ties stay downgraded, India and Pakistan needed this week accepted pending visas for diplomats along with other staff members following two decades of strife on the matter.
Tajikistan will sponsor the NSA assembly as the present seat of SCO.
Doval had walked from this digital assembly of SCO NSAs a year ago following Yusuf demonstrated what India explained as an untrue map of J&K from the backdrop.
India sees Pakistan’s attempts to deliver up the Kashmir problems as a breach of SCO’s standards of protecting sovereignty of member countries.