India Pushes Back Against SCO’s Pro-Pakistan Bias, Rejects Joint Statement on Terrorism

In a decisive move that reveals the underlying geopolitical gamesmanship within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), India has refused to sign a joint statement it deems biased towards Pakistan—highlighting Beijing’s willingness to protect an ally rather than confront terrorism head-on.The SCO, a China-dominated regional group ostensibly formed to promote security cooperation and economic ties, once again showed its true colors as it sought to gloss over Pakistan-backed terrorism by omitting any reference to the brutal April 22 terror attack on Indian tourists in Kashmir. The massacre claimed 26 innocent lives and marked one of the bloodiest assaults in recent memory...