Islamabad:
India suffered a diplomatic humiliation on Thursday at the Meeting of Defense Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) when the Member States refused to support New Delhi’s position against Pakistan.
The members of the 10 -nations SCO defense, including the host of China, Russia, Iran, India, Pakistan and others, joined for a two -day group in the Chinese city of Qingdao.
The meeting ended without the issuance of a joint statement when India refused to sign the document, citing reservations and claiming that the statement aligned with the Pakistan position.
The draft of the joint statement did not mention Pahalgam’s attack, despite the best efforts in India, but referred to terrorist incidents in Pakistan, particularly in Baluchistan. Except India, all other members supported the joint declaration.
However, India refused to sign the document, leaving the host country so as not to issue a joint declaration.
Diplomatic sources told The Express PAkGazette that it was a great diplomatic success for Pakistan and a blow to India, which tried to politicize the OCS meeting and involve Islamabad.
Although the Indian media tried to turn the narrative and insisted that the Minister of Defense of India remained firm, the former Foreign Minister of India and leader of BJP, Yaswant Singha, admitted that it was a total failure of the Modi government.
“India is completely isolated on the global stage. The SCO statement is the last example in which the terrorist attack in Pahalgam has been ignored and Baluchistan has been mentioned. The prime minister has completely failed and must resign,” Sinha wrote about X, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of India during the Vajpayee government.
The reason why India could not gather the support of other countries was his failure to present a pinch of evidence against Pakistan after Pahalgam’s attack.
India’s Minister of Defense, Rajnath Singh, when he went to the SCO meeting offered nothing new. Instead, he referred to past terrorist incidents as evidence of Pakistan’s participation.
According to reports, Singh argued that the joint declaration “aligned with Pakistan’s narrative” because it did not include the attack, but mentioned terrorist activities in Baluchistan, according to the Indian media.
Singh, without explicitly appointing Pakistan, urged the SCO to criticize countries that use “cross -border terrorism as a policy instrument and provide refuge to terrorists.” He said members should join to eliminate terrorism and guarantee the responsibility of those who help such activities, not to mention Pakistan.
“Peace and prosperity cannot coexist with terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of non -state terrorist actors and groups. Treating these challenges requires decisive action,” said Singh, according to a statement by the Ministry of Defense.
Taking a mockery in his Indian counterpart, the Minister of Defense, Khawaja Asif, told the SCO that Pakistan condemned the terrorist attack in the contemporary and illegal assight region recognized internationally. “We call on all states that make these states who planned, financed and sponsored terrorist attacks such as Jaffar Express in Baluchistan,” he demanded.
He averaged Islamabad’s unwavering commitment to SCO’s principles and objectives, but highlighted the need to solve long -data problems.
“The international community must guarantee a peaceful resolution of the unresolved long -standing back conflicts [as such] Unresolved conflicts remain a constant threat to world peace and security, “he emphasized.
The Defense Minister described terrorism as a common threat that should be collectively treated.
“All states should refrain from politicizing joint efforts against terrorism,” added the minister.
