Rajnath to raise terror issues on China visit

THIS WILL BE INDIA'S FIRST MINISTERIAL LEVEL VISIT AFTER 2020 BORDER CLASH

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, in a renewed diplomatic push against cross-border terrorism, is set to call on the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) to intensify efforts to curb terrorism during a two-day conclave in China’s Qingdao, beginning today.

Singh will be visiting the port city in China’s eastern Shandong province to attend the SCO Defence Ministers’ meet from June 25-26, which is expected to deliberate extensively on the evolving regional security architecture.

His visit comes just over a month after Operation Sindoor, under which India conducted targeted air strikes on nine high-value terrorist infrastructures in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir (PoK), following the deadly Pahalgam terror attack.

This marks the first trip to China by an Indian Union Minister since bilateral relations were severely strained by the military standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh that began in May 2020.