External affairs minister S Jaishankar took swipe at Pakistan and China over their position in combating terrorism.
Jaishankar also listed five reasons for the growing scope, scale, and intensity of the terrorist threat in recent years while addressing a session on promoting international cooperation against terror financing at the “No Money For Terror” ministerial conference hosted by India on November 19.
Jaishankar, without naming Pakistan or China, criticised the countries that use terror as a “tool of state-craft” or fail to “rise above political divides” to address the threat posed by terrorism.
For a long time, India has accused Pakistan’s establishment of backing and sheltering terrorist groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) that have carried out cross-border terror attacks.
China’s blocking of joint India-US efforts to sanction Pakistan-based terrorists at the UN Security Council has emerged as a fresh irritant in the already troubled relations between India and China.
“In India’s context, terrorist groups from across the border such as LeT, JeM or Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and their proxies thrive on assured financial support to commit barbaric acts of terror on Indian soil,” Jaishankar said.
“Important that all states collectively follow an undifferentiated and undiluted approach to terrorism. Terror is terror and no political spin can ever justify it,” the EAM tweeted.
