{"id":445,"date":"2021-09-15T10:13:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T10:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=445"},"modified":"2021-09-15T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T10:13:32","slug":"pakistan-prime-minister-to-visit-tajikistan-to-attend-sco-leaders-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/paksitan\/pakistan-prime-minister-to-visit-tajikistan-to-attend-sco-leaders-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan prime minister to visit Tajikistan to attend SCO leaders summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>This is Khan\u2019s 3rd visit to Central Asia during last 3 years<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISLAMABAD (Asia Free Press) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will depart on his two-days official visit to Tajikistan on Thursday, foreign ministry said.<br>In a statement, issued from the foreign ministry, Khan is visiting the central asian republic on at the invitation of President Emomali Rahmon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis will be the third visit of the Prime Minister to Central Asia, underlining Pakistan\u2019s enhanced engagement with the region,\u201d said the ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistani premier will participate in the jubilee Summits of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (SCO-CHS) in Dushanbe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SCO is an 8-member permanent inter-governmental trans-regional Organization. It was established in Shanghai on 15 June 2001. Pakistan became an SCO Observer in 2005 and a full member in June 2017 during Astana SCO-CHS Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Prime Minister of Pakistan will meet with the country&#8217;s top leadership, and a new package of documents on further mutually beneficial cooperation will be signed,\u201d according to the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will have also bilateral meetings with other participating leaders on the sidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the visit, premier Khan will be accompanied by the Pakistan Foreign Minister Mahdum Shah Mehmood Qureshi and other officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister will also inaugurate the first meeting of Pakistan-Tajikistan Business Forum for which a group of Pakistani businessmen will also visit Dushanbe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Joint Business Forum will catalyse growing trade and investment relations and promote business to business contacts between the trading communities of both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A meeting of Pakistan-Tajikistan Joint Business Council will also be held on the sidelines.<br>Within the framework of the visit the fourth meeting of the Business Council of Tajikistan and Pakistan.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Khan\u2019s 3rd visit to Central Asia during last 3 years ISLAMABAD (Asia Free Press) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will depart on his two-days official visit to Tajikistan on Thursday, foreign ministry said.In a statement, issued from the foreign ministry, Khan is visiting the central asian republic on at the invitation of President [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,82],"tags":[163,65,162,164,161],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centralasia","category-paksitan","tag-chs","tag-pakistan","tag-sco","tag-shanghai-cooperation-organization","tag-tajikistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}