New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday used the 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin to deliver plain words on terrorism, telling member states that selective approaches will no longer do.

At the same time, he set out India's three guiding pillars for the grouping-security, connectivity and opportunity-and pressed for reforms both within SCO and at the global level.

"Terrorism is not just a threat to the security of any one country, it is a shared challenge for all humanity. No country, no society, no citizen can consider themselves safe from it," Modi said in the presence of world leaders including Chinese premier Xi Xinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Official sources told thi...