India on Friday briefed New Delhi-based envoys of round 45 nations on the dastardly Pahalgam terror assault and its hyperlink to cross-border terrorism, folks acquainted with the matter mentioned.
New Delhi apprised the envoys about varied facets of Tuesday’s terror assault that killed 26 harmless folks and India’s agency coverage of ‘zero tolerance’ in opposition to terrorism, they mentioned.
The envoys had been briefed in two batches by senior officers of the Ministry of Exterior Affairs or MEA.
Diplomats from Latin America, Africa and West Asia attended the briefings, the folks cited above mentioned.
On Thursday, India briefed senior diplomats of a lot of the G20 international locations and a number of other of its shut strategic companions on the phobia assault.
Whereas Overseas Secretary Vikram Misri held the briefing on Thursday, MEA’s Secretary (West) Tanmaya Lal and Arun Kumar Chatterjee, Secretary within the Abroad Indian Affairs division held the interactions on Friday.
In a associated growth, Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held separate conferences with Israeli envoy Reuven Azar, Argentina’s ambassador Mariano Caucino, Egypt’s Kamel Zayed and Nepalese envoy Shankar P Sharma.
“Appreciated Israel’s steadfast help in combating cross-border terrorism,” the minister mentioned in a social media publish.
Following his assembly with Sharma, Jaishankar mentioned he conveyed condolences to the ambassador on the dying of a Nepali nationwide within the Pahalgam terror assault.
India on Wednesday introduced a raft of punitive measures in opposition to Pakistan together with expulsion of Pakistani navy attaches, suspension of the Indus Water Treaty of 1960 and rapid shutting down of the Attari land-transit publish in view of cross-border hyperlinks to the phobia assault.
In its response, Pakistan on Thursday determined to close its airspace to all Indian airways and suspended commerce with New Delhi together with by third international locations.
Pakistan additionally rejected India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty and mentioned any measures to cease the circulate of water belonging to Pakistan underneath the pact can be seen as an ‘act of warfare’.
Amid nationwide outrage over the phobia strike, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday mentioned the killers of Pahalgam can be pursued ‘to the ends of the earth’ as he promised to ‘establish, monitor and punish each terrorist and their backers’.
In an deal with at Bihar’s Madhubani, Modi vowed to punish terrorists behind the strike and mentioned India’s spirit won’t ever be damaged by terrorism.
“Pals, in the present day from the soil of Bihar, I say to the entire world India will establish, monitor, and punish each terrorist and their backers,” he mentioned.
“We are going to pursue them to the ends of the earth. India’s spirit won’t ever be damaged by terrorism. Terrorism is not going to go unpunished,” he added.
“Each effort can be made to make sure that justice is finished. The whole nation is agency on this resolve. Everybody who believes in humanity is with us. I thank the folks of varied international locations and their leaders who’ve stood with us in these instances,” he mentioned.
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