Pakistan pitches CPEC as SCO integration model, urges AI-digital cooperation

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar framed the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor as a 'compelling' template for comprehensive economic integration within the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and called for AI and digital transformation to anchor future SCO cooperation. The statement signals Islamabad's push to elevate CPEC's regional role amid SCO's expanding agenda, though concrete outcomes remain unspecified.