EAM Jaishankar said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's view on the matter was right since the main purpose of SCO was to fight terrorism and without a reference on it (on India's concerns on terrorism),

India has refused to sign a joint statement, which would have “diluted” its stand over the issue of terror at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ meeting Thursday. Government sources told ThePrint that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh objected to the attempts to dilute the issue and downplay the dastardly 22 April Pahalgam terror attack.

Defence Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, meeting in Qingdao in China, failed to issue a joint statement Thursday after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh declined to sign the draft statement which omitted a reference to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in J&K.