{"id":71652,"date":"2024-10-16T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T04:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=71652"},"modified":"2024-10-16T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T04:52:14","slug":"pm-shehbaz-welcomes-state-dignitaries-to-sco-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/pm-shehbaz-welcomes-state-dignitaries-to-sco-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz welcomes state dignitaries to SCO dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif hosted a dinner on Tuesday, welcoming dignitaries from various member states on the first day of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.<br \/>\nThe SCO comprises China, India, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus \u2014 with 16 more countries affiliated as observers or \u201cdialogue partners\u201d.<br \/>\nPakistan became a full member of the SCO at its 2017 summit in Kazakhstan, which was attended by ex-PM Nawaz Sharif, who recently also expressed hope for reviving ties with India.<br \/>\nAs the current Chair of the Council of the Heads of Government (CHG), Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will preside over the summit.<br \/>\nRight before the SCO dinner, footage from the venue showed PM Shehbaz welcoming and shaking hands with dignitaries, including India\u2019s Jaishankar, with whom he also held a brief conversation.<br \/>\nJaishankar arrived in Pakistan today \u2014 the first such visit in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif hosted a dinner on Tuesday, welcoming dignitaries from various member states on the first day of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. The SCO comprises China, India, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus \u2014 with 16 more countries affiliated as observers or \u201cdialogue partners\u201d. Pakistan became a full &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71666,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71652\/revisions\/71666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}