Global order shift

THE occasion was a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation — a meeting which took place in the Kyrghyz capital Bishkek. Defence ministers from China and India were in attendance along with others from Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and many Central Asian republics who are also members of the SCO. It was here that the Indian defence minister made a statement that was, coming from him, quite surprising. “Terrorism,” Rajnath Singh told everyone, “has no nationality, no theology”. It is a stat...

By none@none.com (Rafia Zakaria)