PM Imran Khan in Tajikistan to attend SCO summit session
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ISLAMABAD/DUSHANBE – Prime Minister Imran Khan has arrived in Dushanbe on a two-day visit to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s summit session, Prime Minister Office said Thursday.
Tajikistan Prime Minister Qahir Rasoulzadeh received the premier who is accompanied by a senior delegation including Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, NSA Moeed Yusuf, Fawad Chaudhry, Ali Zaidi, and Abdul Razzak Dawood.
Khan will also visit Presidential Palace in Dushanbe to meet the President of Tajikistan.
Reports quoting Pakistan Foreign Office stated that the premier will be visiting the Central Asian country on the invitation of Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon and he will be accompanied by a high-level ministerial delegation.
Khan will hold bilateral meetings with other leaders on the sidelines of the SCO Summit.
Meanwhile, Foreign Office stated that PM’s talk with Emomali Rahmon will cover the entire gamut of bilateral relations, especially enhancing trade, economic, and investment ties with a particular focus on regional connectivity.
PM Imran will also inaugurate the first session of the Pakistan-Tajikistan Business Forum. Both sides have earlier expressed a strong commitment to enter into a formal strategic partnership.
FO spokesperson statement cited “The Joint Business Forum will catalyze growing trade and investment relations and promote business to business contacts between the trading communities of both sides. A meeting of the Pakistan-Tajikistan Joint Business Council will also be held on the sidelines. Pakistan and Tajikistan enjoy close brotherly relations underpinned by the bonds of common faith, history, and culture”.
Asim Iftikhar also added that this will be the third visit of the prime minister to Central Asia, undermining Pakistan’s enhanced engagement with the region. “PM’s visit is part of Pakistan’s deepened engagement with Central Asia through ‘Vision Central Asia’ policy, having revitalized focus in five key areas of political ties, trade, and investment, energy and connectivity, security and defense, and people-to-people contacts”.
