India has no intention to escalate the situation with Pakistan, but any military attacks from the neighbouring country will be met with a “very, very firm response”, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday amid heightened tensions between the two sides. Jaishankar, who made the televised remarks during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Seyed Abbas Araghchi, said India was compelled to carry out military strikes on “cross-border terrorist infrastructure” in response to the “particularly barbaric” terror attack at Pahalgam on April 22.
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