India, Sept. 1 -- The Pahalgam terror attack was strongly condemned by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Monday, with the bloc endorsing India's position that the perpetrators of the assault must be brought to justice and that double standards are unacceptable in the fight against terrorism.

The 10-member bloc listed its commitment to fight terrorism and extremism and urged the world community to combat the cross-border movement of terrorists in the Tianjin Declaration, adopted at the conclusion of a two-day summit attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

However, the SCO sought to strike a balance by also condemning...