IN PICTURES: Leaders converge in Islamabad for SCO summit | Pakistan

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October 16, 2024

Pakistan on Wednesday marked a notable achievement on the diplomatic entrance because it hosted the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chairing the assembly attended by numerous world leaders in Islamabad.

The summit is the highest-profile occasion hosted by the nation in years with leaders from 10 international locations in attendance on the federal capital’s Jinnah Conference Centre.

The leaders from the SCO member states attending the summit embrace China’s Premier of the State Council Li Qiang, Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Tajik Prime Minister Kohir Rasulzoda, Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, Kyrgyzstan’s Chairman of Ministers’ Cupboard Zhaparov Akylbek, and Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref.

Indian Overseas Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar’s participation on the occasion was a serious spotlight, marking the primary such go to by an Indian FM in virtually a decade amid frosty relations between the 2 nuclear powers.

In the meantime, observer state Mongolia is represented by Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai and Turkmenistan by Deputy Chairman of the Cupboard of Ministers Rashid Meredov because the particular visitor.

Shaped in 2001, the Eurasian safety and political group claims to signify 40% of the world’s inhabitants and about 30% of its GDP, however its members have numerous political programs and even open disagreements with each other.

PM Shehbaz Sharif receives Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the Jinnah Convention Centre for the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
PM Shehbaz Sharif receives Chinese language Premier Li Qiang on the Jinnah Conference Centre for the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
PM Shehbaz Sharif shakes hands with Irans Minister of Industry Mohammed Atabak at the Jinnah Convention Centre for the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
PM Shehbaz Sharif shakes palms with Iran’s Minister of Trade Mohammed Atabak on the Jinnah Conference Centre for the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
PM Shehbaz Sharif shakes hands with Indian FM Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the Jinnah Convention Centre for the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
PM Shehbaz Sharif shakes palms with Indian FM Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on the Jinnah Conference Centre for the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
PM Shehbaz Sharif shakes hands with Vice President of Turkmenistan Rasit Meredow at the Jinnah Convention Centre for the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
PM Shehbaz Sharif shakes palms with Vice President of Turkmenistan Rasit Meredow on the Jinnah Conference Centre for the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
PM Shehbaz Sharif shakes hands with Tajikistans PM Qohir Rasulzoda at the Jinnah Convention Centre for the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
PM Shehbaz Sharif shakes palms with Tajikistan’s PM Qohir Rasulzoda on the Jinnah Conference Centre for the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
Participants pose for a group photo at the Jinnah Convention Centre for the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
Members pose for a bunch photograph on the Jinnah Conference Centre for the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
PM Shehbaz Sharif speaks at the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
PM Shehbaz Sharif speaks on the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
PM Shehbaz Sharif speaks at the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
PM Shehbaz Sharif speaks on the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
Indian FM Subrahmanyam Jaishankar speaks at the SCO summit being held at the Jinnah Convention Centre in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — X/@DrSJaishankar
Indian FM Subrahmanyam Jaishankar speaks on the SCO summit being held on the Jinnah Conference Centre in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — X/@DrSJaishankar
An inside view of the Jinnah Convention Centre with SCO summit underway in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — X/@DrSJaishankar
An inside view of the Jinnah Conference Centre with SCO summit underway in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — X/@DrSJaishankar

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