News & Updates October 19, 2026

SCO Observatory update: Pakistan’s chairmanship year, October 2026

Written by IPDS Admin

The SCO Observatory now has a dedicated section on Pakistan’s chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation for 2026 to 2027.

Pakistan took the chair of the Council of Heads of State from Kyrgyzstan at the Bishkek summit on 1 September 2026 and will host the leaders’ summit in Islamabad in August 2027. The new section sets out the chairmanship theme and the priorities stated so far, the three SCO meetings Pakistan has hosted in Islamabad since July, what the Bishkek summit left open for the new chair (including the SCO Development Bank), and which parts of the year have not yet been announced. Every stated aim is placed at declared on the commitment ladder until an instrument exists.

Other changes in this update: the twenty fifth Council of Heads of Government, which opened in Dushanbe on 19 October, now has an entry, to be expanded when its outcome documents are published. The Development Bank entry records the fifth round of consultations, held in Hangzhou on 17 September. Sector documents reported from the Bishkek summit are placed for the environment, transport and digital files. The structured dataset is now at version 2.8.

Read the section: https://ipd.org.pk/research-publications/sco-observatory/#pakistan

Corrections are welcome through the link in the Observatory’s header.