INDIA and Pakistan will set out down the road to membership of Eurasian security bloc the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) at this week’s Brics-SCO summit.

Speaking at a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the process of India joining the SCO had begun.

The dual summit of the SCO and the five Brics nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — is taking place in Ufa, the capital of the Russian republic of Bashkortostan.