India, Sept. 1 -- The "disgusting" terror attack in Pahalgam was an open challenge to every country believing in humanity, and SCO members should question whether the support of terrorism by some countries is acceptable, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday told a gathering that included his Pakistani counterpart Shehbaz Sharif.

Modi, who was addressing the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in the Chinese city of Tianjin, urged members of the bloc to come together to clearly state that double standards on terrorism are unacceptable. The gathering also included Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Indian side had said ahead of the SCO Summit, for which Modi travelled to China for the first...