India Refuses to Sign SCO Joint Statement

On 26th June 2025, at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers' meeting in Qingdao, China, Indian Defence Minister refused to sign a joint statement after it omitted reference to a recent terror attack in India, while highlighting a terror incident in Pakistan.

Why India did not sign the document?

  • The SCO draft statement included a reference to a train hijacking in Pakistan’s Balochistan region.
  • However, it omitted the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu & Kashmir, where civilians were targeted based on religious identity.
  • India viewed this as selective acknowledgment of terrorism, and demanded equal treatment of all such acts.

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