The conference is being attended by 27 international and 40 Indian delegates

Pakistan on Thursday skipped the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) military medicine conference organised by India here.

The conference is being attended by 27 international and 40 Indian delegates.

At the conference, the inaugural session of which was addressed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the seat allotted to Pakistan was vacant.

This is the first military cooperation event hosted by India after becoming a full-time member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

India and Pakistan became members of SCO in June 2017.