Afghanistan and terrorism will be the main topics of the SCO meeting on Friday.

The Shanghai collaboration Organization’s defence ministers will meet in Delhi on Friday with the main topics of discussion being the rapidly changing regional security environment, events in Afghanistan, and methods to further collaboration in the successful fight against terrorism and extremism.

Colonel General Ruslan Zhaksylykov of Kazakhstan, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Gharaei Ashtiyani of Iran, and Colonel General Sherali Mirzo of Tajikistan have already arrived at the nation’s capital.

Additionally present at the conference, which will be presided over by Rajnath Singh, are the defense ministers of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan as well as Sergei Shoigu of Russia.

Khawaja Asif, the defense minister of Pakistan, will participate in the meeting virtually.

The major emphasis of the discussions, according to those engaged in the meeting’s planning, would be on regional security circumstances, especially the developments in Afghanistan.

Another top objective, according to them, would be to improve collaboration between the SCO member nations in order to successfully tackle terrorism and extremism.

Singh had private discussions with Li, Colonel General Zhaxylykov, and Colonel General Mirzo before to the SCO gathering.

Additionally, Singh and Brigadier General Ashtiyani had a private meeting.

One of the biggest transregional international organizations, the SCO is a significant economic and security bloc.

The presidents of Russia, China, the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan established it during a conference in Shanghai in 2001.

In 2017, India and Pakistan were admitted as permanent members.

India joined the SCO as an observer in 2005, and since then, it has regularly taken part in its ministerial-level conferences, which largely discuss security and economic co-operation in the Eurasian area.

India has expressed a strong desire to strengthen its security-related cooperation with the SCO and its Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure, which focuses on security and defense-related problems.