India, May 20 -- The heinous terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, on April 22, 2025, which resulted in the death of 26 civilians, should have galvanised a swift and unequivocal regional response. Perpetrated by The Resistance Front (TRF), widely regarded as a proxy for the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), this attack represents a recurring threat architecture that India has long sought to dismantle. Yet, in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), where counter-terrorism is enshrined as a core mission, the response has once again been tepid, muddled, and politically diluted. The SCO's founding principles, rooted in combating the three evils of terrorism, extremism, and separatism, have rarely translated into meaningfu...