NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan, notwithstanding their political tension, will participate in an eight country joint counter-terrorism exercise to be hosted by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Among other defence-related activities planned by the group, India plans to host SCO military ...

BEIJING: China opens Saturday a two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit attended by Pakistan and India after the two countries became members of the regional security bloc led by China and Russia.  Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain arrived in Qingdao on Friday where he was received ...

BEIJING: China will seek to bolster the fight against extremism at a regional security summit this weekend with some of its closest diplomatic allies, including Russian President Vladimir Putin. Jointly led by Russia and China, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was launched in 2001 to ...

Pakistan will join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) after the SCO Summit in Astana in June, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov told a SCO Foreign Ministers Council meeting in Astana."SCO expansion is undoubtedly one of the most relevant issues right now. India and Pakistan ...