LAHORE: Full membership status of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) for Pakistan and India will help improve relations between the two neighbouring countries, said the chairman Pak-India Business Council (PIBC) .
“The SCO is a forum for resolving issues and it has opened up another window of cooperation between the two nations to settle their disputes through dialogue,” PIBC Chairman Noor Muhammad Kasuri.
He said the PIBC was optimistic about a positive outcome of the development. He said that full membership status of Pakistan and India in the organisations was a step in the right direction and the PIBC appreciated it.
“Whatever the situation is, the only way out of resolving issues and differences is dialogue and the SCO has provided another opportunity for the leadership of regional countries to sit together and talk with each other,” he added.
He said that the presence of these countries would also strengthen the SCO, broaden its role and enhance its importance. He said that the PIBC was of firm opinion that poverty, illiteracy, diseases, unemployment and terrorism were common challenges facing India and Pakistan and they could find solution to these problems by diverting their energies towards these issues instead of fighting with each other.
