A three-day holiday has been awarded in the Twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad ahead of the heads of state SCO meeting.
Prime ministers from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, Iran's first vice president, and India's external affairs minister are in attendance.
The Prime Minister of Mongolia, an SCO observer state, and Turkmenistan's Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers will also join as special guests.
Ahead of the event, violence has gripped the country with a spate of attacks, including the suicide bombing that killed two Chinese engineers in Karachi.
The violence coincides with the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement's holding of a jirga. The local government has allowed the movement to stage its jirga in Jamrud following negotiations barring it from hoisting foreign flags or making speeches against the army and the constitution.
On the other hand, tensions remain high in the region following Israeli strikes on Lebanon and Gaza, and the killing of Syed Hasan Nasrallah and Ismail Haniyeh, among other leading figures of the resistance movements against Israeli occupation.
Following Iran's missile attack, Israeli retaliation is widely expected, with their leaders promising a deadly and surprising attack on Iran. This may even come in the form of strikes against Iranian nuclear targets.
These attacks precede recent devastation in Baluchistan, with the lining up and killing of coal miners as well as the destruction of private coal mines. The attacks on energy infrastructure and mineral resources have thus stepped up.
However, with the lining up and killing of pilgrims in Baluchistan, Sectarian attacks aiming at widespread chaos have already begun, which threaten to quickly engulf the border regions of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, particularly Pakistani tribal areas.
Security agencies will have a wary eye on these developments and will be hard-pressed to consolidate recent gains in the fight against terrorism, lest the nation slide back to the heyday of the chaos witnessed in the country during the first two decades of the millennium.
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