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Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari arrived in the Indian city of Goa yesterday to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers meeting. In a video message on Twitter, Bilawal — the first foreign minister to head to India in over a decade — confirmed that he had reached Goa. Bilawal said that he would first hold meetings with his counterparts from Russia and Uzbekistan, which will be followed by a formal dinner for all the foreign ministers at the SCO. “I will give one or two interviews and that is the programme for today,” he added. The SCO’s Council of Foreign Ministers in Goa was scheduled to be held yesterday and today. Indian news agency ANI shared photos of Bilawal and Chinese counterpart Qin Gang in Goa.