Modi urges SCO to dismantle terror ecosystem, reject double standards

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to dismantle the entire ecosystem supporting terrorism, including its financing, recruitment, and safe havens, in a firm address at the group's summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on September 1, 2026. Speaking in the presence of Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other world leaders, Modi called for a united front against terror and rejected any double standards in combating the threat. "We must dismantle the entire ecosystem of terrorist financing, recruitment, radicalisation, and safe havens.