{"id":1315,"date":"2025-07-15T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T11:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefridaynews.com\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2025-07-15T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T11:41:03","slug":"ishaq-dar-meets-president-xi-jinping-reaffirms-pakistan-china-strategic-ties-at-sco-ministerial-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefridaynews.com\/?p=1315","title":{"rendered":"Ishaq Dar Meets President Xi Jinping, Reaffirms Pakistan-China Strategic Ties at SCO Ministerial in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar met with China\u2019s President Xi Jinping on Tuesday as he represented Pakistan in a joint call of the foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SCO is a 10-nation Eurasian security and political grouping whose members include China, Russia, Pakistan, India, and Iran. The group\u2019s foreign ministers meet as a precursor to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1864831\">annual summit<\/a>&nbsp;of its leaders, which will be hosted&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/615887\">by China<\/a>&nbsp;this autumn in Tianjin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on X today, Dar&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MIshaqDar50\/status\/1945012596056187239\">said<\/a>&nbsp;he was \u201cdelighted\u201d to meet with Xi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing before the SCO meeting and conveyed the \u201cwarm greetings of the leadership, government and people of Pakistan\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs iron-clad brothers and all-weather strategic cooperative partners, we remain committed to deepening Pak-China enduring friendship and advancing shared regional goals,\u201d he posted on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese president, welcoming the heads of delegations, underlined the \u201csalience of regional cooperation\u201d under the ambit of the SCO, according to the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ForeignOfficePk\/status\/1944974129993822435\">Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/a>&nbsp;(Mofa).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly later, Dar&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ForeignOfficePk\/status\/1944993236474384859\">arrived in Tianjin<\/a>&nbsp;along with other foreign ministers to lead Pakistan\u2019s delegation to the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers\u2019 meeting, according to Mofa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deputy premier arrived in Beijing last night, where he was received at the airport by Ambassador Yu Hong and other senior officials of the Asian Affairs department of China\u2019s Mofa, as well as Pakistan\u2019s ambassador to China, Khalil ur Rehman Hashmi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India\u2019s Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Russia\u2019s Sergei Lavrov and Iran\u2019s Abbas Araghchi are among the top diplomats arriving in Beijing for the SCO moot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1924349\/dar-meets-xi-ahead-of-sco-foreign-ministers-meeting-in-china#meetings-with-sco-members-ministers\"><\/a>Meetings with SCO members\u2019 ministers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dar also met with the foreign ministers of various SCO member states on the sidelines of the joint call on Xi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlways good to exchange views for strengthening regional understanding and cooperation in such a challenging time,\u201d he&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MIshaqDar50\/status\/1944996187607646493\">said<\/a>&nbsp;on X about his meeting with his Iran, Uzbekistan and Belarus counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In separate meetings with&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MIshaqDar50\/status\/1944980706737697065\">Kazakhistan<\/a>&nbsp;FM Murat Nurtleu and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MIshaqDar50\/status\/1944978214704574678\">Kyrgyzstan\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;Zheenbek Moldokanovic, Dar and the ministers reaffirmed a commitment to the enhancement of positive bilateral ties and expanding collaboration across areas of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an earlier statement from the Mofa, Dar is set to hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts from the SCO member states during his visit to China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar met with China\u2019s President Xi Jinping on Tuesday as he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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