🇵🇰 Pakistan assumes Shanghai Cooperation Organization chairmanship, pledging to prioritize connectivity, artificial intelligence, energy, poverty reduction

🇵🇰 Pakistan assumes Shanghai Cooperation Organization chairmanship, pledging to prioritize connectivity, artificial intelligence, energy, poverty reduction, disaster management and health ▪️ Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says Mecca Agreement for Joint Defense with Türkiye, Saudi Arabia is ‘fundamentally defensive’ and not directed against any state ▫️ He calls Islamabad Memorandum between US, Iran ‘critical step towards restoration of peace’ and ‘most viable and enduring pathway’ toward lasting regional peace ▪️ Pa