{"id":20826,"date":"2026-09-01T08:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/01\/modi-lasting-stability-asia-afghanistan-india-shanghai-cooperation-organisation\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:58:23","slug":"modi-lasting-stability-asia-afghanistan-india-shanghai-cooperation-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/01\/modi-lasting-stability-asia-afghanistan-india-shanghai-cooperation-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi Says Lasting Stability in Asia Hard to Achieve Without Addressing Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting that establishing lasting stability in Asia would be difficult without taking Afghanistan\u2019s situation into account. He described Afghanistan as one of the important factors in ensuring regional security and stability.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 26th meeting of the organisation in Bishkek, Modi said New Delhi had stood alongside the people of Afghanistan in various areas over the past years. According to him, this cooperation had included aid and support for the development process.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian prime minister also stressed that his country wanted to continue this approach in the future. He said India\u2019s humanitarian and development support for the people of Afghanistan would be maintained.<\/p>\n<p>The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is a regional body focused on security, political and economic issues, and Afghanistan has in recent years been one of the main topics of discussion at its meetings. Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, hosted this round of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi says lasting stability in Asia is difficult without considering Afghanistan, and India will keep supporting the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}