{"id":2959,"date":"2026-10-19T17:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2026-10-19T17:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:03:50","slug":"ishaq-dar-arrives-in-dushanbe-to-attend-sco-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2959","title":{"rendered":"Ishaq Dar arrives in Dushanbe to attend SCO meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar arrived in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Monday to lead Pakistan\u2019s delegation to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting, being held on October 19\u201320.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, the deputy prime minister was received by Tajikistan\u2019s Minister of Energy and Water Resources and Co-Chair of the Pakistan\u2013Tajikistan Joint Commission Daler Juma, Pakistan\u2019s Ambassador to Tajikistan Irfan Ahmed and Pakistan\u2019s National Coordinator for the SCO Khalil Hashmi, along with senior Tajik government officials, the Foreign Office Spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Besides participating in the CHG proceedings, Dar will meet Tajikistan\u2019s leadership and his counterparts from SCO member states on the sidelines, a statement issued by the Foreign Office said.<\/p>\n<p>The SCO 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 Ishaq Dar arrived in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Monday to lead Pakistan\u2019s delegation to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting, being held on October 19\u201320. Upon arrival, the deputy prime minister was received by Tajikistan\u2019s Minister of Energy and Water Resources and Co-Chair of the Pakistan\u2013Tajikistan Joint Commission Daler Juma, Pakistan\u2019s Ambassador to Tajikistan Irfan Ahmed and Pakistan\u2019s National Coordinator for the SCO Khalil Hashmi, along with senior Tajik government officials, the Foreign Office Spokesperson said in a&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-2959","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\/2959","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=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}