- HQ: Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- Part of SCO’s security architecture 2001
- facilitate info sharing, intelligence coordination, joint counter terrorism measures
- based on Shanghai Convention on Combating Terrorism, Separatism, Extremism
- conducts joint exercises
- cooperation against cyber terrorism, online radicalism
Challenges
- geopolitical rivalry bw members (india, china, pak)
- enforcement gaps
- no standard definition for terrorist, extremist
India significance
- multi lateral counter terror platform alongside Eurasion powers
- strategic engagement to enhance defence & intelligence coop