PM Modi at SCO: The statesman who made terror tremble |
It began with silence. Not the silence of hesitation, but the silence of awe. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi walked into the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit hall, it was not just another leader entering. It was India stepping into the room with the authority of a civilizational power. Some others may have had bigger economies or sharper militaries, but they did not carry what PM Modi carried: the moral weight of a billion-strong democracy and the courage to speak uncomfortable truths.
“Terrorism is not only a threat to the security of individual nations, but a shared challenge to all of humanity. That is why India has consistently stressed the importance of unity in the fight against terrorism,” Prime Minister Modi thundered. And in that instant, PM Modi was not just addressing the SCO, he was reminding the world that India will never allow terror to be normalised, glamorised, or excused.
The SCO has long been dismissed as a China-Russia club. Yet, PM Modi changed the script. He turned it into a stage where India’s voice became the conscience of Asia.
PM Modi spoke of the cancer that destroys all of it — terrorism. He cut through the jargon, exposing the hypocrisy of countries that condemn terror in theory while financing and sheltering it in practice. Without naming Pakistan, he reduced its credibility to rubble.
PM Modi does not mince words. He makes diplomacy look less like endless dialogue and more like an uncompromising defense of dharma. That is his hallmark.
If one phrase defines PM Modi’s foreign policy, it is this: exploring the unexplored.
Where others see deadlocks, PM Modi sees opportunities. Where others hesitate, PM Modi steps forward. Who imagined that........