In Beijing, NSA Ajit Doval urges SCO countries to shun double standards

Beijing: Spotlighting the barbaric Pahalgam terror attack and India’s subsequent Operation Sindoor to dismantle terror infrastructure across the border, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Tuesday called for the urgent need to shun double standards in the fight against terrorism and take decisive actions against UN-proscribed terrorists and entities.

Addressing the 20th meeting of the Security Council Secretaries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States in Beijing, NSA Doval said that India is deeply concerned about continued threat from terror groups designated by United Nations Security Council (UNSC), including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) — two of the most dangerous and state-supported terror outfits operating out of Pakistan - besides Al Qaeda, ISIS and its affiliates.

In his intervention, he highlighted the need to shun double standards in the fight against terrorism and take decisive actions against UN-proscribed terrorists and entities like LeT, JeM and their proxies and dismantle their terror eco-systems.

As NSA Doval reiterated that any act of terror including cross border terrorism is a crime against humanity, India called on SCO members to hold accountable the perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of acts of cross border terror and to help bring them to justice.

He also stated that India’s actions during Operation Sindoor - launched to dismantle terror infrastructure and deter terrorists who were likely to be sent across the border into India - were measured and non-escalatory.

Operation Sindoor was launched in response to the barbaric terror attack on April 22 in J&K’s Pahalgam, in which TRF, a proxy of LeT, killed 26 Indian and Nepalese nationals and injured several others after segregating them on the basis of religion.

NSA Doval asserted that India has centuries old linkages with each country in the SCO and the millennia-old Indian principle of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ will guide India’s approach to prosper together with other member states. (IANS)

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