Tianjin, July 17 -- Highlighting the dastardly Pahalgam terror attack at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting in Tianjin, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on July 15 said that the grouping must remain true to its founding objectives of tackling terrorism, separatism, and extremism and take an uncompromising position on the challenge.

"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 example of the terrorist attack in Pahalgam on 22 April 2025. It was deliberately conducted to undermine the tourism economy of Jammu and Kashmir, while sowing a religious divid...