{"id":34713,"date":"2024-10-14T19:36:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T19:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=34713"},"modified":"2024-10-14T19:36:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T19:36:06","slug":"sco-summit-in-islamabad-a-catalyst-for-regional-cooperation-strengthening-of-economic-linkages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/34713","title":{"rendered":"SCO Summit in Islamabad: A catalyst for regional cooperation, strengthening of economic linkages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit, set to take place in Islamabad on October 15-16 is anticipated to serve as a key platform for fostering regional cooperation, bolstering trade and investment besides enhancing socio-economic-cultural linkages among its member states.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Diplomatic and political experts said that this important summit of the heads of governments of SCO\u2019s member states will not only help work together to address the pressing regional issues but also significantly enhance Pakistan\u2019s role on the global stage as a leader.<\/p>\n<p>The SCO, which includes member states accounting for approximately 40% of the global population, and 32% of the world\u2019s GDP, presents Pakistan with an excellent opportunity to shape its economic and investment future.<\/p>\n<p>The SCO\u2019s roots trace back to the Shanghai Five established in 1996, evolving significantly after Uzbekistan joined in 2001, and more recently, Pakistan became a full member in 2017 after excellently performing its observer\u2019s role during 2015-17.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit, set to take place in Islamabad on October 15-16 is anticipated to serve as a key platform for fostering regional cooperation, bolstering trade and investment besides enhancing socio-economic-cultural linkages among its member states. Diplomatic and political experts said that this important summit of the heads of governments of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1380,31,32,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-news","category-pakistan","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34715,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34713\/revisions\/34715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}