BEIJING:
Nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India will be joining a security bloc led by China and Russia at a Russian Summit this week, claimed a Senior Chinese diplomat on Monday.
This is the first time the grouping has expanded since it was set up in 2001, reportedly.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) groups China, Russia and the former Soviet republics of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, while India, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Mongolia are observers.
“As the influence of the SCO’s development has expanded, more and more countries in the region have brought up joining the SCO,” Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping told a news briefing.
The SCO was originally formed to fight threats by radical Islamists and drug trafficking from neighbouring countries.
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