Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, is set to travel to India next month to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) foreign ministers meeting. This is the most senior level visit to India in seven years and presents an opportunity for the two nuclear-armed countries, which have a history of fractious relations, to thaw the ice. Diplomatic relations have been strained since a militant attack on an Indian army base in Kashmir in 2016. However, tensions between the two countries escalated in February 2019, after Pakistan claimed to have shot down two Indian fighter jets. The latest breakthrough came after China brokered a deal between arch foes Iran and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia and Iran announced on March 10 that they had agreed to reestablish diplomatic ties after seven years of hostility, in a deal that could have wide-ranging implications for the Middle East and was seen as a major soft power win for Beijing. Riyadh and Tehran plan to reopen their embassies within two months and reimplement a security pact first signed 22 years ago. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia moved closer to joining the SCO bloc, having been granted the status of a dialogue partner as it expands its global outreach. The kingdom could be granted full membership eventually.