{"id":23533,"date":"2026-09-01T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23533"},"modified":"2026-09-01T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:53:14","slug":"pakistan-to-assume-sco-council-of-heads-of-state-presidency-for-2026-27-as-shehbaz-sharif-signs-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23533","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to assume SCO Council of Heads of State presidency for 2026-27 as Shehbaz Sharif signs declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bishkek: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has signed the declaration of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Council of Heads of State meeting, as Pakistan prepares to assume the presidency of the council for 2026-27.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attended the signing ceremony of the declaration and signed the document on behalf of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of other SCO member states also signed the joint declaration at the summit.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were among the leaders who signed the SCO summit declaration.<\/p>\n<p>In a significant development for Islamabad, Pakistan will assume the presidency of the SCO Council of Heads of State for 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Bishkek.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting between the two foreign ministers took place ahead of the SCO Council of Heads of State summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishkek: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has signed the declaration of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Council of Heads of State meeting, as Pakistan prepares to assume the presidency of the council for 2026-27. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attended the signing ceremony of the declaration and signed the document on behalf of Pakistan. Leaders of other SCO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[10251,13520,170,62,4168,8234,13519,1634,1717,587],"class_list":["post-23533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-abbas-araghchi","tag-bishkek","tag-ishaq-dar","tag-pakistan","tag-sco","tag-sco-summit","tag-shanghai-cooperation-organisation","tag-shehbaz-sharif","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23535,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23533\/revisions\/23535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}