{"id":28762,"date":"2024-04-26T16:22:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=28762"},"modified":"2024-04-26T20:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:04:53","slug":"defence-minster-pakistan-reaffirms-unwavering-commitment-to-the-sco-platform-at-annual-meeting-in-astana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/defence-minster-pakistan-reaffirms-unwavering-commitment-to-the-sco-platform-at-annual-meeting-in-astana\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Minster Pakistan Reaffirms  Unwavering Commitment to the SCO platform at Annual Meeting in Astana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28763\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-04-26-at-5.55.13-PM-e1714148212215.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" \/>ASTANA\/ Kazakhstan: Federal Minister for Defence &amp; Defence Production Khawaja Muhammad Asif is leading the Pakistan delegation to Kazakhstan for the annual meeting of the Defence Ministers of member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5>The meeting reviewed the regional security issues, including the defence cooperation initiatives.<\/h5>\n<h5>Defence Minister also held meetings with the defence ministers of the friendly countries of the SCO to discuss issues of bilateral defence cooperation.<\/h5>\n<h5>Various areas of mutual interest including respective regional security, counter terrorism, Afghanistan situation and review of national security priorities, extremist threats, border management and maritime security were also deliberated upon.<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em><strong>Minister of Defence stated that Pakistan is deeply concerned about the escalating situation in Gaza. Pakistan has consistently advocated for a just, comprehensive and lasting solution to the Palestinian question anchored in international law and in line with relevant United Nations resolutions.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28816\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Kazakhstan_Pakistan_Defense.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Kazakhstan_Pakistan_Defense.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Kazakhstan_Pakistan_Defense-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5>He also said that Pakistan reaffirms its unwavering commitment to the SCO platform. \u201cI would reiterate that Pakistan takes great pride in our partnership with SCO and are fully committed to further deepening and expanding this association\u201d, said the Minister for Defense while addressing the forum.<\/h5>\n<h5><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">On the sidelines of the Meeting of the Heads of Defense Departments of the SCO member states, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Colonel General Ruslan Zhaksylykov and Minister Defense Pakistan Khawaja Asif discussed prospects for cooperation in defense and defense training between two countries. <\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"uriVYlsJo8\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-defence-minister-to-participate-in-sco-meeing-in-astana\/\">Pakistan Defence Minister to Participate in SCO Meeing in Astana<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pakistan Defence Minister to Participate in SCO Meeing in Astana&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-defence-minister-to-participate-in-sco-meeing-in-astana\/embed\/#?secret=3cO43FB3fv#?secret=uriVYlsJo8\" data-secret=\"uriVYlsJo8\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASTANA\/ Kazakhstan: Federal Minister for Defence &amp; Defence Production Khawaja Muhammad Asif is leading the Pakistan delegation to Kazakhstan for the annual meeting of the Defence Ministers of member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). The meeting reviewed the regional security issues, including the defence cooperation initiatives. Defence Minister also held meetings with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[1851,2882,697,1160,47,48,509],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28817,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28762\/revisions\/28817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}