New Delhi, June 26 -- India refused to sign the joint statement at the two-day SCO Defence Ministers meeting in China as Beijing and Islamabad did not want to mention the Pahalgam terror attack but were adamant on including the Jaffar train hijack incident in Balochistan.
A joint statement would have diluted India's position on critical issues, particularly terrorism and regional security.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who attended the conference in Qingdao, stressed the need to bring perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of terrorism to justice and asserted that "epicentres of terrorism were no longer safe and India would not hesitate to target them".
He stated that the biggest challenges faced by the region were rel...