As officials explained, after Afghanistan becomes an Observer, South Asia would become contiguous to Central Asia in the SCO. This would help all neighbouring countries achieve the two aims they desire in the region for Afghanistan — the country becomes a geo-strategic bridge as well as a terror free zone. India has already been involved with the SCO's Regional Anti-terrorism Centre (RATS) and some intelligence-sharing is taking place. “We told them about the obvious fact of the terror machine being based in the neighbourhood,'' said sources in the government. “We see the RATS as an important regional answer to the terrorism challenge,'' said Mr. Krishna.
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On Pakistan, officials said India had so far been working through the United States to pressure Islamabad into folding up the militant organisations that were operating with the benign acquiescence of the administration in Islamabad or the General Headquarters of the Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi.
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The SCO has the potential to be an additional forum through which Pakistan could be urged to rein in those spouting hatred and violence against those not in agreement with their end goals.
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India, as do many other countries in the region, feel that the SCO, along with countries to the west, would be able to more comprehensively tackle the problem of Islamic militancy attempting to make inroads not in just Af-Pak but the entire arc that begins much further up in the north in an area called the Ferghana Valley, which was artificially divided in the 1920s into three Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. This division did not take into account the scenario of divided clans and ethnic communities when the three provinces were converted into nation-states following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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On Pakistan, officials said India had so far been working through the United States to pressure Islamabad into folding up the militant organisations that were operating with the benign acquiescence of the administration in Islamabad or the General Headquarters of the Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi.
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The SCO has the potential to be an additional forum through which Pakistan could be urged to rein in those spouting hatred and violence against those not in agreement with their end goals.
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India, as do many other countries in the region, feel that the SCO, along with countries to the west, would be able to more comprehensively tackle the problem of Islamic militancy attempting to make inroads not in just Af-Pak but the entire arc that begins much further up in the north in an area called the Ferghana Valley, which was artificially divided in the 1920s into three Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. This division did not take into account the scenario of divided clans and ethnic communities when the three provinces were converted into nation-states following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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