BRICS Mulls Expanding Alliance With Applications from Zimbabwe, Cameroon and Pakistan Ahead of Summit in Russia

3 new countries - Zimbabwe, Cameroon, and Pakistan - have formally applied to join the BRICS alliance in 2024

The BRICS summit in October will decide on expanding membership based on a joint consensus amongst current members

The upcoming 16th BRICS summit will be held in Russia's Kazan region

The new applicant countries are economically weak and seeking to join to uplift their economies, but may not bring much to benefit BRICS

India likely to vote against Pakistan's induction due to tensions between the two countries