October 16, 2024 1:46 PM

Pakistan calls for expansion of China’s Belt and Road Initiative at regional meeting

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on Wednesday for the expansion of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to enhance regional cooperation at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Islamabad. He was addressing a heads of government meeting of the SCO, a Eurasian security and political group formed in 2001, being attended by officials from 11 countries, including host Pakistan, China, Russia and India. "Flagship projects like the Belt and Road Initiative of ...