India, July 16 -- Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday raised the issue of the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council meeting in Tianjin and urged member countries to remain uncompromised on aspects of terrorism.

Jaishankar, who is on his first China visit since the Galwan Valley clashes in June 2020, said the Pahalgam terror attack, in which 26 people were killed, "was deliberately conducted to undermine the tourism economy of Jammu and Kashmir, while sowing a religious divide."

Jaishankar said that SCO was founded to combat three evils- terrorism, separatism and extremism, which "not surprisingly" often occur together.

"It is imperative that the SCO, to remain true to ...