ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar will represent the country at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting scheduled for 17–18 November 2025 in Moscow, following an invitation from Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
The gathering — the SCO’s second-highest decision-making forum — will bring together the heads of government of Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, along with the Vice President of Iran and the foreign ministers of Pakistan and India.
Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said delegations from Mongolia, Bahrain, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, and Turkmenistan will also attend as observers, while senior officials from leading regional organisations, including the CIS, Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO,) and others, are expected to participate.
In his address, Dar will outline Pakistan’s position on key regional and global developments, focusing on economic cooperation, connectivity, trade integration, and socio-economic development within the SCO framework. The CHG is mandated to approve joint communiqués, budgetary matters, and major organisational decisions.
Dar is also scheduled to hold a series of bilateral meetings with leaders of SCO member states on the sidelines of the summit.
