External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has issued a stern warning against future terrorist provocations, reiterating that India will not hesitate to strike back against Pakistan regardless of location.

“And we don’t care where they are. If they are deep in Pakistan, we will go deep into Pakistan,” Jaishankar said in an interview with Politico during his official visit to Brussels, Belgium, for high-level trade talks with the European Union.

Jaishankar’s remarks reflect the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s recent stance on cross-border terrorism. Jaishankar, who was in Brussels for high-level trade talks with the European Union, further asserted that Pakistan was training “thousands” of terrorists in the open and unleashing them on its southern neighbour.

On 12 May, Modi asserted that India won’t be bogged down by any ‘nuclear blackmail’ from Pakistan and that the country’s military actions against terrorism have only been paused for now.

In his first address to the nation after ‘Operation Sindoor’, Modi said that the future course of action would depend on Pakistan’s behaviour.