A day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh refused to sign a joint communique of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) following the omission of the Pahalgam terror attack and not explicitly addressing India’s concerns over Pakistan-backed cross-border terrorism, Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said India wanted a reference to terrorism in the outcome document of the SCO defence ministers’ meeting, but it was not acceptable to one member country, an oblique reference to Pakistan.
