With the Shanghai cooperation organization summit (SCO) planned in Tianjin from August 31 to September 1, 2025, the spotlights are again on the indicated mission of the international security block. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi is preparing to join the OCS summit, India and Pakistan disagree with each other.
In a press briefing on Tuesday, India said that it expected a strong SCO conviction on cross -border terrorism. In a spouse media briefing, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vikram Misri, said that New Delhi is working with OCS members for a joint conviction of terrorism in the summit declaration. He said that SCO had been established with the main objective of countering terrorism, separatism and extremism, which remains a challenge.
Why do India and Pakistan do not agree on terrorism at the top of the OCS?
India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, targeting terrorist infrastructure in the Pakistan territories in response to Pahalgam attack on June 22. This sparked a violent 4 -day confrontation.
After operation Sindoor, the SCO Summit will be the first time that the two nations have engaged in diplomatic talks in a multilateral framework.
There is a structural anomaly or a political contradiction within the OCS, in particular around the bone of affirmations between India and Pakistan, cashmere. India is that the declaration explicitly calls for cross -border terrorism and sponsored by the State, which is a veiled reference in Pakistan. Indian representatives were on a Sindoor operation around the world to justify the Indian justification behind the air strikes. They also referred to an image to show an involvement of the Pakistani state in terrorism, where a killed terrorist received funeral sponsored by the state. However, Pakistan denies any commitment and claims to be a victim of terrorism. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif described Operation Sindoor as a “coward act of war”. Officially China, during Operation Sindoor, underlined the support of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan. However, he did not directly recognize any operational support. Indian officials, including the deputy chief of staff of the army, the LT Gen Rahul R. Singh, said that China had provided Pakistan in real time during the conflict. Later, Pakistan showed its desire to engage in diplomatic talks to solve the problem, including cashmere, water sharing and efforts to fight terrorism.
However, SCO requires a consensus of all members to finalize statements on terrorism. Even the resistance of a single member, like Pakistan, can block a strong condemnation of the language of terrorism in a way that implies them directly. Pakistan denies any involvement in Pahlgham’s attack and is looking for quantifiable evidence. Accept a strong condemnation of language will undermine its national and international position. It creates a persistent contradiction in the anti-terrorist objectives of SCO and prevents it from reaching an exploitable consensus.
