Pakistan has extended a formal invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting, scheduled for October this year in Islamabad. Addressing a weekly news briefing, spokesperson of Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, said that Pakistan has extended invitations to all heads of government of SCO member states, including Prime Minister Modi, for the upcoming Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting in Islamabad to be held on October 15 and 16. The SCO includes nine member countries: India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, the Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.