June 9, 2025

Nearly three weeks after the end of a brief but brutal India-Pakistan war, New Delhi on Monday warned that the root causes of the conflict remain unchanged — and that India stands ready to strike anywhere in Pakistan if provoked by terrorist attacks.

"It [Pakistan] is a country very steeped in its use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy. That is the whole issue," Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told POLITICO during a visit to Brussels.

Asked if the conditions that led to the outbreak of war last month were still in place, he said:  "If you call the commitment to terrorism a source of tension, absolutely, it is."

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