External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid met Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz at Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit.

Khurshid and Aziz reportedly discussed a possible meeting between Sharif and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at New York later in September, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.