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As many as 26 harmless vacationers had been massacred within the Pakistan-sponsored terror assault in Jammu and Kashmir, a heinous act condemned all through the world.
The ‘Rio de Janeiro Declaration’ adopted after the primary day’s proceedings on the seventeenth BRICS Summit being held within the Brazilian metropolis, expressed “sturdy condemnation of any acts of terrorism as felony and unjustifiable,” no matter their motivation, each time, wherever and by whomsoever dedicated.
“We condemn within the strongest phrases the terrorist assault in Jammu and Kashmir on 22 April 2025, throughout which not less than 26 individuals had been killed and plenty of extra injured. We reaffirm our dedication to combating terrorism in all its kinds and manifestations, together with the cross-border motion of terrorists, terrorism financing and protected havens,” learn Paragraph 34 of the Rio Declaration.
Investigations into the Pahalgam terror assault introduced out the communication nodes of terrorists in and to Pakistan. A bunch calling itself The Resistance Entrance (TRF) – a entrance for the UN-proscribed Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba – had claimed accountability for the assault.
Whereas committing the barbaric act in Pahalgam, the Pakistani terrorists killed Indian and Nepalese nationals and injured a number of others after segregating them on the idea of faith.
“We reiterate that terrorism shouldn’t be related to any faith, nationality, civilisation or ethnic group and that every one these concerned in terrorist actions and their help have to be held accountable and delivered to justice in accordance with related nationwide and worldwide regulation,” the BRICS leaders collectively said on Sunday.
“We urge to make sure zero tolerance for terrorism and reject double requirements in countering terrorism. We emphasise the first accountability of States in combating terrorism and that world efforts to forestall and counter terrorist threats should totally adjust to their obligations beneath worldwide regulation, together with the Constitution of the United Nations, specifically the needs and ideas thereof, and related worldwide conventions and protocols, specifically worldwide human rights regulation, worldwide refugee regulation and worldwide humanitarian regulation, as relevant,” the declaration added.
The leaders of the grouping additionally welcomed the actions of the BRICS Counter-Terrorism Working Group (CTWG) and its 5 Subgroups primarily based upon the BRICS Counter-Terrorism Technique, the BRICS Counter-Terrorism Motion Plan and the CTWG place paper.
“We sit up for additional deepening counter-terrorism cooperation. We name for an expeditious finalisation and adoption of the Complete Conference on Worldwide Terrorism within the UN framework. We name for concerted actions towards all UN-designated terrorists and terrorist entities,” the declaration said.
Final month, whereas spotlighting the horrendous Pahalgam terror assault and India’s subsequent Operation Sindoor to dismantle terror infrastructure throughout the border, Nationwide Safety Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval had referred to as for the pressing must shun double requirements within the struggle towards terrorism and take decisive actions towards UN-proscribed terrorists and entities.
Addressing the twentieth assembly of the Safety Council Secretaries of the Shanghai Cooperation Group (SCO) Member States in Beijing, NSA Doval stated that India is deeply involved about continued menace from terror teams designated by United Nations Safety Council (UNSC), together with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) — two of essentially the most harmful and state-supported terror outfits working out of Pakistan – in addition to Al Qaeda, ISIS and its associates.
In his intervention through the SCO assembly held in Beijing, he highlighted the necessity to shun double requirements within the struggle towards terrorism and take decisive actions towards UN-proscribed terrorists and entities like LeT, JeM and their proxies and dismantle their terror ecosystems.
India had additionally referred to as on SCO members to carry accountable the perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of acts of cross-border terror and to assist convey them to justice.
