{"id":79687,"date":"2021-09-18T23:12:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T03:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=79687"},"modified":"2021-09-18T23:13:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T03:13:01","slug":"sco-opens-in-tajikistan-pakistans-imran-khan-calls-for-replacing-geo-politics-with-geo-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/fa\/blog\/2021\/09\/18\/sco-opens-in-tajikistan-pakistans-imran-khan-calls-for-replacing-geo-politics-with-geo-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"SCO Opens in Tajikistan: Pakistan\u2019s Imran Khan Calls for Replacing Geo-politics With Geo-economics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>SCO Opens in Tajikistan: Pakistan\u2019s Imran Khan Calls for Replacing Geo-politics With Geo-economics<\/strong> &#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sept.&nbsp;16, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is convening at the head-of-state level in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, with the crisis in Afghanistan the major immediate challenge to their 20-year mission. The eight SCO countries\u2014China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan\u2014become nine with full membership granted to Iran. (Afghanistan, Belarus, and Mongolia are \u201cObserver States\u201d; Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Turkey are \u201cDialogue Partners.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early reports indicate multiple \u201csideline\u201d meetings of the leaders of various countries. In particular, Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister Imran Khan was quite busy on Thursday, meeting on the sidelines with Belarus\u2019s President Alexander Lukashenko, Iran\u2019s President Ebrahim Raisi and Uzbekistan\u2019s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. He had a more extensive bilateral meeting with Kazakhstan\u2019s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on \u201ctrade, investment and transportation links.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had been welcomed at Dushanbe\u2019s airport by Tajikistan\u2019s President Emomali Rahmon. According to the statement released by the Pakistani government, he described an upgrading of the two countries\u2019 engagement\u2014what he termed his \u201cVision Central Asia\u201d policy\u2014and emphasized connectivity and Pakistan\u2019s \u201cpivotal position in providing the shortest access route to the sea.\u201d His key example of connectivity was the Trans-Afghan railway project connecting Termez\/Mazar-e-Sharif\/Kabul\/Jalalabad\/Peshawar. His statement repeated the need to transform from \u201cgeo-politics\u201d to \u201cgeo-economics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also addressed the new Pakistan-Tajikistan Business Forum on expanding the \u201cminuscule\u201d $80 million of trade. He declared that Pakistan would expedite work on the CASA-1000 power transmission line to benefit from \u201cyour clean and cheap energy [such as] hydroelectricity\u201d, too much lacking in Pakistan. Otherwise, he stated that he would work with President Rahmon to stabilize Afghanistan: \u201cWe will be doing our best to make sure they get together and there is an inclusive government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCO Opens in Tajikistan: Pakistan\u2019s Imran Khan Calls for Replacing Geo-politics With Geo-economics &#8212; Sept.&nbsp;16, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is convening at the head-of-state level in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, with the crisis in Afghanistan the major immediate challenge to their 20-year mission. The eight SCO countries\u2014China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan\u2014become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":79688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[738,748,520,505,639,692,754,751,739,752,746],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-79687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-belrus","category-updates-development","category-updates","category-global-diplomacy","category-india","category-iran","category-kazakhstan","category-pakistan-global-diplomacy","category-turkmenistan","category-uzbekistan","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79698,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79687\/revisions\/79698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}