'Virus of Conflict is affecting the functioning of the SCO' In the light of the above statement point out the role of India in mitigating the problems.

Use Bishkek to show the internal conflicts straining SCO consensus, and India's response through its counter-terror stance and cooperative proposals.

• In June 2025 India declined to sign an SCO defence ministers' statement that left out the Pahalgam terror attack, showing how consensus dilutes terror language.
• At Bishkek, Modi called for dismantling 'the entire ecosystem' of terrorist financing, recruitment, radicalisation and safe havens, with 'no place for double standards'.
• India backed connectivity that respects sovereignty and territorial integrity, objecting to CPEC through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and proposed a Civilisational Dialogue Forum whose first session India will host.

Use it to show India-Pakistan hostility as conflict within the SCO and India's calibrated response: attend, guard against misrepresentation, and refuse diluted positions on terror.

• Conflict inside the SCO: after the Pahalgam attack of 22 April 2025 (26 killed) and Operation Sindoor from 7 May 2025, Pakistan now holds the SCO presidency and hosts the 2027 summit.
• India's role: it keeps attending, as with the first official visit since Operation Sindoor to Islamabad, while watching for territorial misrepresentation in official SCO documents.
• India refused to endorse the June 2025 Qingdao defence ministers' joint statement that omitted Pahalgam, showing it will not let consensus dilute its stand on terrorism.