DUSHANBE, September 11, 2014, Asia-Plus — On Thursday September 11, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon received Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif”s National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz, who arrived in Dushanbe to attend a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
According to the Tajik president’s official website, the sides discussed issues related to state and prospects of further expansion of bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Pakistan.
A special attention was reportedly paid to implementation of regional transportation and energy projects, including Central Asia-South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Project (CASA-1000).
The sides reportedly expressed interest in launching joint ventures in Tajikistan.
Pakistan has observer status in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as do Afghanistan, India, Iran, and Mongolia.
Sartaj Aziz (b. February 7, 1929) is a Pakistani economist, statesman, strategist, and the current National Security Advisor (NSA) as well as key adviser on the foreign policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. He is a veteran Pakistan Movement activist, and a former professor of macroeconomics at the Beaconhouse National University (BNU). Prior to that, he also served as Foreign Minister in a previous term of the Sharif government from 1990-1993 and as well as Finance Minister in 1997 until being reassigned as Foreign Minister in 1999.
