Beijing, June 10 (TIWN) China on Monday said the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit is not a forum to target a country, in an apparent reference to India's likelihood to slam Islamabad on terror at the event to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

During his first foreign visit to the Maldives after being re-elected as India’s Prime Minister, Modi on Saturday indirectly attacked Pakistan, saying state sponsorship of terrorism is the biggest threat the world is facing today. Modi is likely to raise the issue at this week’s summit as part of India’s strategy to isolate Pakistan at multilateral forums. “In every summit, the institutional building of the SCO will be discussed that would involve economic cooperation and security cooperation particularly on counter-terrorism,” said China’s Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Hanhui. “Security and development are two major issues of focus for the SCO. The establishment of the SCO is not to target any certain country, but the summit of this level will certainly pay attention to major international relation and regional issues,” Zhang said in an indirect reference to Pakistan while replying to a question if multilateralism would be the fulcrum of the discussion at the event.