India warns of fitting response to any terror attack by Pakistan

India has warned Pakistan that it will not be deterred by Islamabad’s use of nuclear threats to evade the consequences of terrorism and will respond to terror attacks.

“India will not bow to nuclear blackmail,” Anmol Sher Bedi, senior adviser at India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, said on Friday.

He warned Pakistan that “any terrorist attack against India will receive a fitting response” and that India would “make no distinction between those who sponsor terrorism and those who mastermind it”.

Operation Sindoor, launched last year against terrorist bases in



Pakistan, “followed a grave provocation” in the form of the Pahalgam terror attack by Pakistan-based terrorists, who killed 26 civilians, he said.

“India acted in self-defence,” he said, adding that “these actions were measured, targeted, and designed to be non-escalatory”.

“Nuclear weapons must not be treated as routine instruments of statecraft” and “a posture that relies on nuclear overhang to limit the consequences of subconventional activity raises the risk of escalation and not the prospect of restraint,” he said at a meeting of the UN General Assembly’s First Committee, which deals with disarmament issues, in New York.