External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Friday hit back at a Pakistani reporter who attempted to heckle him with a question on terrorism during a press briefing in New York.
The briefing had been announced as a remarks-only interaction before it began. Towards the end, the Pakistani reporter abruptly intervened and sought to raise a terror-related question, which Jaishankar bluntly shut down. Jaishankar was addressing the press alongside Sara Beysolow Nyanti, Liberia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, at the Group of Friends on Safety and Security of Shipping and Seafarers. The External Affairs Minister is in New York leading the Indian delegation for the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
India carried out Operation Sindoor in response to the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, 2025, in which 26 civilians were killed. The condemnation of the Pahalgam terror attack was also reflected in outcome documents at various multilateral forums, including a United Nations Security Council press statement issued in April 2025 and the recent BRICS summit in the New Delhi declaration. The Resistance Front (TRF), described as a proxy of the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) involved in the Pahalgam terror attack, was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) by the US Administration on July 18, 2025.
India has said many nations have recognised its actions to defend itself against terrorism following the attack.
