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In this photo released by the Press Information Department, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (centre) delivers his speech at the opening session of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting, in Islamabad, Pakistan, October 16, 2024
[Press Information Department via AP] 
LEADERS and top officials from the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) met in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad today and called for enhanced co-operation in areas including security, trade and health.
They also called for boosting people-to-people contact and minimising the impacts of climate change.
The meeting was held amid tight security in Islamabad, and attended by leaders including Chinese Premier Li Qiang, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and the prime ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Mongolia.
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