Five years ago, India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval walked out of an SCO meeting to protest Pakistan’s mapNew Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in China on Saturday to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. He met Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss strengthening bilateral ties, amid rising tensions with the United States, which has imposed steep tariffs on Indian goods.
The visit recalls when India’s ‘Super Spy’ Ajit Doval took a firm stand on the country’s sovereignty five years ago.
The Walkout That Made Headlines
It was September 2020, the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Diplomacy had shifted largely online, and SCO National Security Advisors were meeting virtually.
During the session, Pakistan’s representative, Dr Moeed Yusuf, displayed a newly issued political map. On it, Jammu and Kashmir and Junagadh, territories integral to India, were claimed by Pakistan. This was in clear violation of SCO rules, which forbid bringing bilateral disputes into multilateral forums.
India was quick to object. Despite repeated attempts by Russia, which chaired the meeting, to get Pakistan to remove the map, the warnings went unheeded.
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