The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) was founded at a summit in Shanghai in 2001 by the Presidents of Russia, China, Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as a counterweight to NATO. As a Eurasian political, economic and security organisation, SCO serves as a critical geopolitical pole, focussed on central Asia and its neighbourhood. The sco had set the ball rolling to make India a member of the bloc during its summit in Ufa in Russia in July 2015, when the administrative hurdles were cleared to grant membership to India and Pakistan. This was seen as a balancing act, as Russia had then favoured permanent sco membership for India, while China pushed for Pakistan. Till now, India has been an observer at the SCO since 2005, participating in the ministerial-level meetings of the grouping, which focus mainly on security and economic co-operation in the Eurasian region.With India now obtaining membership of the SCO at the Astana summit, an important platform has opened up for New Delhi in an increasingly multi-polar world. For one thing, sco provides a good platform to boost India&#39;s ties with energy-rich central Asian nations. Many of the current members of the six-nation grouping have huge reserves of oil and natural gas. New Delhi should capitalise on this to shore up its energy security and open up land trading routes to Russia and Europe.Diplomatic observers say that it will be interesting to see how India deals with several challenges that its&nbsp;membership of the SCO will throw up. First, given that Pakistan too has been admitted as an sco member, New Delhi could use the organisation to hold Islamabad accountable on the issue of terrorism. In fact, combating terrorism, extremism and separatism is a principal priority for SCO, which has an antiterrorist structure in place, with a brief to analyse intelligence inputs about terror outfits, their presence and finances and also conduct counter-terrorism exercises. And there&#39;s no denying that terrorism emanating from Pakistan poses the biggest threat to regional security today. The abduction and murder of two Chinese teachers in Balochistan demonstrates that the terror weapon cannot be finely honed for use against India alone. Pakistan and its patron China too will suffer, for terrorism is not so much a zero, as a negative-sum game. But then, this strategy is replete with risk: if India pressed hard on terrorism, Pakistan could raise the Kashmir issue.&nbsp;Opening a direct channelIt will be the first time that India and Pakistan will be part of a group that seeks security and military co-operation among member countries. It also comes at a time when the already tense ties between the two sides are in a free fall. Both the South Asian neighbours will now be expected to conduct joint military exercises along with other sco members under the Tashkent-based Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure. Such co-ordination between Indian and Pakistani militaries is welcome, as it can open a direct channel of communication between&nbsp;New Delhi and Rawalpindi GHQ - the real author of Pakistan&#39;s India policy. Afuture India-Pakistan compact is only possible if the Pakistani military is on board.The second area of interest is India-China relations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had met President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Astana summit and emphasised the need to respect each other&#39;s core concerns. This comes at a time when ties between India and China have become tense over Beijing blocking New Delhi&#39;s membership to the Nuclear Suppliers Group and stonewalling UN sanctions against Pakistan-based terrorist Masood Azhar. With China using SCO to further its strategic interests in the region, India could leverage this to obtain Beijing&#39;s co-operation on Pakistan-sponsored terrorism.Since Pakistan blocks India&#39;s connectivity with Afghanistan and central Asia, Beijing could help New Delhi on this score as well. In exchange for this as well as settling border disputes with India, China could obtain India&#39;s support for its &#39;One Belt One Road&#39; (OBOR) project of transnational connectivity.For Russia, India would add heft to the grouping and check SCO from becoming a China-dominated alliance. At the same time, India will be concerned about China&#39;s ambitious OBOR initiative getting an SCO branding. The project that aims to be the new Silk Route linking Asia, Africa and Europe through a web of road, rail and port networks did find a mention in the joint statement of the grouping.

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