Published on, Sept. 1 -- September 1, 2025 1:08 AM

President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday said that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO) contiguous geographies gave them a historic opportunity to work together for economic connectivity, address common challenges such as poverty, climate change, and bio-degradation.

"We have to make common efforts to address the challenges of poverty, and inequality. Only then we will be able to usher in true human security anchored in a just global order," the president said in an Op-Ed published in China Daily on the occasion of SCO Summit hosted by China in Tianjin.

Over the past several years, he said the SCO's performance in countering terrorism, curbing transnational crimes especially drug ...