{"id":2948,"date":"2026-10-19T14:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2026-10-19T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:04:10","slug":"ishaq-dar-to-lead-pakistan-delegation-at-sco-meeting-in-tajikistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2948","title":{"rendered":"Ishaq Dar to lead Pakistan delegation at SCO meeting in Tajikistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar will lead Pakistan\u2019s delegation to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on October 19-20, the Foreign Office said on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dar is visiting at the invitation of Tajikistan\u2019s Prime Minister Qohir Rasulzoda.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will be attended by the prime ministers of Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as Iran\u2019s vice president and India\u2019s external affairs minister, according to the Foreign Office.<\/p>\n<p>The Council of Heads of Government is the SCO\u2019s second-highest decision-making body.<\/p>\n<p>It provides guidance on economic, financial, trade, connectivity, commerce and socio-economic cooperation, as well as the organisation\u2019s budgetary matters.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is expected to adopt a joint communiqu\u00e9, statements and other decisions.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, Dar will also call on Tajikistan\u2019s president and prime minister and hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts from SCO member states on the sidelines of the meeting, the Foreign Office said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar will lead Pakistan\u2019s delegation to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on October 19-20, the Foreign Office said on Monday. Dar is visiting at the invitation of Tajikistan\u2019s Prime Minister Qohir Rasulzoda. The meeting will be attended by the prime ministers of Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as Iran\u2019s vice president and India\u2019s external affairs minister, according to the Foreign Office. The Council of Heads of Government&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}