Pakistan Opens SCO Chairmanship With Islamabad Meeting

Pakistan is hosting a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting of national coordinators in Islamabad from September 28 to 30, opening its 2026-27 chairmanship with discussions on the group’s planned activities and upcoming meetings. The scheduled session brings together coordinators from member states and representatives of the SCO Secretariat, according to Pakistan’s Foreign Office. The Foreign Office said Pakistan’s national coordinator would chair the meeting. Its agenda includes the programme of activities under Pakistan’s chairmanship, preparations for upcoming SCO meetings and events, and other matters related to the organisation’s work. The meeting is scheduled to help coordinate the chairmanship’s programme ahead of a Council of Heads of State summit planned for Islamabad in August 2027. India is set to participate, according to a report citing Indian government sources. That report said the coordinators were expected to approve the calendar of events under Pakistan’s chairmanship. The supplied information does not establish whether the meeting has approved a calendar or taken any other decisions.