India in no mood to overlook terrorism by Pakistan: S Jaishankar

New Delhi, March 23

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said the prevailing sentiment now in India is not to overlook terrorist outrage and that the problem cannot be skirted anymore with Pakistan sponsoring terrorism almost at an “industry level”.

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“Every country wants a stable neighbourhood… if nothing else, you want at least a was pursuing a Ukrainian link, despite a statement from Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak that Kyiv had nothing to do with it.

The FSB security service said “all four terrorists” had been arrested while heading to the Ukrainian border, and that they had contacts in Ukraine. It said they were being transferred to Moscow. “Now we know in which country the suspects planned to hide from pursuit—Ukraine,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Telegram.

A senior Russian lawmaker, Andrei Kartapolov, said that if Ukraine was involved, then Russia must deliver a “worthy, clear and concrete” reply on the battlefield. State TV editor Margarita Simonyan published a video of one of the suspects, a young bearded man, being interrogated by the side of a road. She said the death toll had climbed to 143 but did not give the source of her information. Russia’s Investigative Committee earlier said at least 115 had died in the attack, in which camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers in the Crocus City Hall near the capital.

The US intelligence confirmed the IS’ claim of responsibility for the shooting. — Reuters