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India to participate in SCO’s anti-terror exercise in Pakistan

New Delhi, Sept 30 (South Asian Wire): India is going to participate in an anti-terrorism exercise led by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure (RATS) that being organized from October 3 at Pabbi in Nowshera district of Pakistan. Its purpose is to increase mutual cooperation against terrorism among SCO member states.

A three-member team from India will go to Pakistan to participate in this exercise.  India was the last country to confirm its participation in the exercise and it will be represented by officials of the National Security Council Secretariat. Earlier this month, Chief of Defense Staff General Bipin Rawat visited Russia to witness a multi-nation counter-terrorism exercise in the Orenburg region.

According to the English newspaper Times of India, this exercise was announced in March this year after the meeting of RATS in Tashkent. Under the SCO protocol, Pakistan had invited all the member countries including India for this exercise. Soldiers are not involved in this exercise and its objective is to identify and stop the channels that fund terrorist activities.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) includes China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan. The organization aims to combat racial and religious extremism and increase business investment. In a way, the SCO was a response from Russia and China to US-dominated NATO.

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