India's foreign minister will travel to Pakistan this week to attend a conference on Afghan peace, the highest-ranking leader in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to cross the border in a region marked by fragile ties.
Sushma Swaraj will lead India's delegation to the ministerial meeting, called the "Heart of Asia," on Wednesday in Islamabad, India's Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Vikas Swarup said in a Twitter post.
She will also meet Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on the sidelines, Press Trust of India reported without citing where it got the information.
Swaraj's trip, after a meeting between Modi and Sharif last month, and an unannounced interaction between the national security advisers of the two nations in Bangkok over the weekend, signals a thaw in relations between the nuclear-armed rivals.