Abstract
In 2018 Pakistan as well as India participated for the first time as a full scale member of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) that held at Qingdao city of China on June 9-10. Obviously, that provided a brilliant opportunity to show willingness and readiness to contribute to the effectiveness of the SCO. Pakistan’s inclusion into the organization has opened a timely opportunity to bid for regional peace and economic prosperity for its nation. There are multiple arrangements which help Pakistan to come in the streamline as well as allow the Muslim state to support ongoing priority interests of the organization. Due to Pakistan’s membership many changes are expected in the domestic legislation and international commitments generated out of organizational common interest. Moreover, it will have great impact (but positive) on Islamabad’s traditional behavior towards regional and international politics particularly on the front of its foreign policy. This article makes the point that among many opportunities that Pakistan’s inclusion into SCO brings, there are few challenges for the country as well. For example, inclusion of Pakistan in the SCO is not an isolated decision; India was also given the full membership to join the organization as a permanent member. Traditionally, both Pakistan and India have zero tolerance for each other when it comes to their national security dynamics. Other than United Nations and SAARC, SCO is the third organization where both countries will be sitting together, though UN is quite a different one. Likewise, SAARC, if both the countries maintain the same status-quo of bashing each other, the very purpose of SCO will go in vain. Also, this article proposes that Pakistan shall not be allowed to label itself as a negative factor in the SCO. Therefore, this research paper has shed light on Pakistan’s previous inability to benefit from regional organizations while suggesting a way forward for her engagement with the SCO. Believing on the great potential of Pakistan and SCO, this paper has adopted deductive methodology with that of ‘economics defines politics’ as a conceptual framework.
Highlights
The very spirit of the international politics is to create opportunities for global community to better serve humanity and establish the foundations for long lasting peace and prosperity between nations. This is true when we look around and measure developments in the field of trade, business, economics, politics, human development, education, science and technology
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was founded with the aim of cooperation in the areas of mutual interregional activities on countering terrorist acts, separatism and extremism and to strengthen relations among member states to promote cooperation in political affairs, economics and trade; the organization in 21st century would help both Pakistan and India to mend their ties and uphold the spirit of the SCO
The establishment of SCO, the organization has given great priority to fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism which posses a real threat to security of all member states
Summary
The very spirit of the international politics is to create opportunities for global community to better serve humanity and establish the foundations for long lasting peace and prosperity between nations. Starting form issues of mutual trust, the organization enhanced its mandate to cooperate on countering terrorism, extremism and separatism in Central Asia. They nexus of five-member organization in 2006 furthered their commitment to fight against the menace of drug mafia. As the official website of the Russia‟s Presidency states that “its longterm goal is the creation of a free trade zone in the SCO space, while favorable conditions for trade and investment are to be promoted in the short-term perspective” These were the basic purposes of creating the organization. If the primary objectives of countering terrorism, extremism and separatism are kept in mind, both Pakistan and India can accrue maximum benefits from the organization
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