New Delhi, July 15 -- Whith Pakistan and China listening, External Affairs Minister (EAM) Jaishankar said on Tuesday in Tianjin that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) needs to take an "uncompromising" stand on combating terrorism. Speaking at a conclave of the SCO group as he defended India's response to Pahalgam terror attack, Jaishankar said the SCO needs to remain true to its founding objective.

Jaishankar also said the Pahalgam attack was "deliberately conducted" to undermine the tourism economy of Jammu and Kashmir and sow a religious divide.

"The three evils that SCO was founded to combat were terrorism, separatism and extremism. Not surprisingly, they often occur together. Recently, we in India witnessed a graphic examp...