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Over to Sidharth Bhatia for today’s Cable

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Snapshot of the day

June 26, 2025

Sidharth Bhatia

India has blocked the release of a joint communique by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Thursday, by refusing to sign it, citing the fact that it has not explicitly addressed New Delhi’s concerns on Pakistan-sponsored cross-border terrorism. PTI reports that defence minister Rajnath Singh’s refusal to sign the draft communique at the SCO defence ministers’ conclave at Qingdao in China, has meant that the meeting ended without one as the grouping functions under a consensus framework. The