❖ Islamabad hosted the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit 2024.

❖ The summit aims to address critical issues such as regional security, economic cooperation, and combating terrorism.

❖ India’s External Affairs Minister, alongside Prime Ministers from China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Iran’s First VicePresident participated in the event.

❖ This is the first high-level visit by an Indian official to Pakistan in nearly nine years.

❖ SCO is a permanent intergovernmental international body founded on June 15, 2001, in Shanghai, China.

❖ The organisation expanded to nine member countries with the inclusion of India and Pakistan in 2017.