Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar Monday reached Astana for the regular meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the SCO. At the airport, he was received by Director of the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nursalimuly Yergalym, Pakistan’s Ambassador in Astana, Nauman Bashir Bhatti and Pakistan’s National CoordinatorAmbassador Marghoob Saleem Butt.
Founded in 2001, the SCO is a major trans-regional organization spanning South and Central Asia, with China, Russia, Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan as its permanent members.
