Did the SCO endorse Pakistan’s stand on Balochistan?

India’s nationwide safety advisor since 2014 Ajit Kumar Doval is on report for having warned Pakistan that if it didn’t cease sponsoring cross-border terrorism in India, it will lose Balochistan, the place the Balochistan Liberation Military (BLA) has been waging a ‘struggle of liberation’.

The arrest of a former commander within the Indian Navy, Kulbhushan Jadhav, from Balochistan in 2016 on expenses of spying can be cited by Pakistan as proof of involvement of India’s exterior intel company RAW (Analysis & Evaluation Wing). Jadhav was tried by a army courtroom in Pakistan and was sentenced to loss of life in 2017. Whereas the identical yr the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ) had stayed his execution, his present destiny just isn’t clear.

Pakistan additionally accused India of complicity within the BLA’s hijacking of the Jaffar Categorical passenger prepare in March 2025.

India’s failure to persuade members of the SCO to incorporate the Pahalgam terror assault within the draft is telling. Whereas different members have maintained a stiff higher lip, even the Indian delegation has provided no reason India’s demand was not met and on what grounds.

In the meantime, an announcement purportedly issued by the ‘Republic of Balochistan’ thanking the Indian defence minister for his principled stand on the SCO has additionally embarrassed India — regardless of the authenticity of the assertion being uncertain. The BLA in statements now and again has expressed its gratitude to India for the unspecified help we’ve got purportedly prolonged.

The diplomatic debacle on the SCO has divided opinion again residence too. Former exterior affairs minister Yashwant Sinha tweeted on X, ‘India stands utterly remoted on the international stage. The SCO communique is the newest instance the place the fear assault at Pahalgam has been ignored and Baluchistan has been talked about. The prime minister has failed utterly and should resign.’