India will boost SCO's potential: China think tank

 Calling for joint efforts by India and China to fight terrorism, especially threats posed by the radical Islam, a Chinese thinktank on Monday said India’s membership of the SCO will enable the security grouping realise its potential.It is high time for both (India and China) to try more concerted efforts in multilateral security forum” an article published in State-run Global Times said.

“For instance, a joint work is urgently required for their joint efforts to fight terrorism, especially the threats posed by radical Islam and drug trafficking from neighbouring Afghanistan. The latter is a neighbour of nearly all the countries in the SCO,” said the article written by Tsinghua University researcher Xie Chao.

India and Pakistan were admitted to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation at the recent Ufa summit in Russia. China is an influential member in six-member grouping.