NEW DELHI: Pakistan and India are set to make history after they will take part in a joint military exercise for the first time, courtesy the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
The military exercise will be organized by SCO, a bloc of Eurasian countries of which Russia, China, India, and Pakistan are a party to. The drills will be held in August.
The military exercises will follow the 18th SCO Summit, scheduled for June 9-10 in Qingdao, Shandong province. The summit will be attended by a galaxy of world leaders.
The joint military drill will focus on preventing terror attacks and dismantling terror networks. They have been dubbed “Peace Mission 2018.” The SCO training will be held between the end of August and beginning of September in the Ural Mountains in Russia.
It will be the first time for the two countries to take part in a military exercise together, although their armies have previously worked in United Nations peacekeeping missions.
The drill’s command post exercise will take place at the Chebarkulsky training ground in the Ural mountains. Chiefs of general staff of the SCO nations will also hold a meeting during the joint military drills.
The exercises are biannual, multinational drills with the goal of enhancing counterterrorism coordination and cooperation among the eight member countries, according to the people cited earlier.
The last military exercise of the SCO was held in Kyrgyzstan in September 2016. The 2018 exercise will be the first for India and Pakistan since becoming full members of the SCO in 2017.
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