Bishkek: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to confront countries using terrorism as an instrument of state policy and reject "double standards" to combat the menace, even as he asserted that dialogue and diplomacy are the only way forward to resolve global conflicts.
In the presence of Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Chinese President Xi Jinping and many other global leaders, Modi said that "we cannot remain confined to an action-reaction approach" in the fight against terrorism, in remarks widely viewed as a direct swipe at Pakistan.
