Dr. Huma Baqai (IR Expert): It’s a very critical time, an equation is being built between US and China and Iran is being given a status in SCO which means that Iran’s global isolation is nearing its end. Chinese defiance of an imposed order of the west is now quite evident. The SCO meeting is an important meeting which is going to yield positive results. India and Pakistan both initially had observers’ status and then both were given permanent membership status but the thing to notice is that how India is going to react after the Afghanistan developments.