Opinion | SCO Is Important for India's Geostrategic Needs and Realities

The world has not become suddenly messy, as is suggested by the editorial piece in the Hindustan Times (30 April) on "The myth and reality of the SCO grouping". The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, its impact on India which lost its biggest political, military and economic partner, India's 1991 economic crisis, the onslaught of Pakistan-promoted terrorism against India from 1990 onwards leading to the 2008 terrorist mayhem in Mumbai, the earlier 2001 terrorist attacks on the US by Al Qaeda, the US invasion of Afghanistan, later of Iraq as part of US regime change policies were all…