For the first time after Operation Sindoor, India and Pakistan Defense Minister and National Security Advisor (NSA) will be face to face. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and NSA Ajit Doval will arrive on Wednesday (June 25, 2025) to reach Kingado in China to attend the Shanghai Corporation Organization (SCO) summit. Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khwaja Asif and NSA Asim Malik are also going to attend this meeting. Ajit Doval is already in China and also met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday.
This will be the first time after Operation Sindoor when the Defense Minister of India and Pakistan and NSA will face face to face under one roof. India can also raise the issue of terrorism in the meeting and will sit in front of Pakistan and expose them how terrorist conspiracies are hatched from there.
The SCO meeting is to be held on June 25 and 26 and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has posted on the social media platform X and told that he will leave for China today to attend the meeting. He wrote in his post, ‘Through the SCO meeting, there will be a chance to discuss different issues with the defense ministers of different countries. I am ready to call for joint and continuous efforts to eliminate global peace, security and terrorism.
On the sidelines of the SCO meeting, India will meet the Defense Ministers and NSAs of other member countries including Russia and China, but the hope of having a bilateral meeting with Pakistan is negligible as India has made it clear that no other issue will be discussed until Pakistan does not talk on terrorism and Pakistan -occupied Kashmir (POK).
India has always been against terrorism. The terrorist organizations on the land of Pakistan create conspiracy against India and carry out incidents like Pahalgam attack, but Pakistan has been lying on the issue of terrorism and has now started to call itself a victim of terror. Pakistan has given shelter to the bosses of dreaded terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammed. Terrorist camps are run there, but Pakistan has been denying it.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Foreign Minister Dr. S. All the ministers, including Jaishankar, have said that business and terrorism cannot run together. Now the same thing is worth talking between the two countries and that is that Pakistan should hand over the terrorists to India and vacate the part of Jammu and Kashmir which has been illegally occupied. India has said that there will be no bilateral talks with Pakistan until these issues are resolved.
The SCO was formed in the year 2001 and India became its member in 2017. The SCO meeting was held in New Delhi in the year 2023, when Pak Defense Minister Khwaja Asif did not come to India to attend the meeting, but he attended the meeting virtually. SCO member countries are India, China, Russia, Pakistan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Iran and Belarus.
