In a strongly-worded message to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday condemned “cross-border terrorism”, and known as on all States to reject the usage of terrorism towards different international locations, dismantle terrorism infrastructure and produce perpetrators of terrorism to justice swiftly.
This was a part of the joint assertion issued after the Prime Minister’s go to to Saudi Arabia, that was lower brief because of the terrorist assault in Pahalgam on Tuesday. Modi returned on Wednesday morning, as an alternative of on Wednesday night time.
The joint assertion particularly condemned the assault, because it mentioned, “Each side strongly condemned the grotesque terror assault in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir on 22 April 2025, which claimed the lives of harmless civilians. On this context, the 2 sides condemned terrorism and violent extremism in all its types and manifestations, and emphasised that this stays one of many gravest threats to humanity.”
“They agreed that there can’t be any justification for any act of terror for any motive in anyway. They rejected any try to hyperlink terrorism to any explicit race, faith or tradition,” it mentioned.
“They welcomed the wonderful cooperation between the 2 sides in counter-terrorism and the fear financing. They condemned cross-border terrorism, and known as on all States to reject the usage of terrorism towards different international locations, dismantle terrorism infrastructure the place it exists, and produce perpetrators of terrorism to justice swiftly. Each side careworn the necessity to forestall entry to weapons together with missiles and drones to commit terrorist acts towards different international locations,” it mentioned. This adopted the fear assault in Kashmir’s Pahalgam, the place 26 individuals, principally vacationers, had been killed.
On Tuesday, Modi delayed his scheduled assembly with the Saudi crown prince by at the least two hours to evaluate the scenario in Kashmir. The PM, who held bilateral talks with the Saudi crown prince, skipped an official dinner earlier than returning dwelling on Tuesday night time.
The Muslim World League, primarily based in Makkah, additionally condemned the terrorist assault.
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In the course of the talks, Modi and MBS appreciated the deepening of the defence ties as a key pillar of the strategic partnership and welcomed the creation of a Ministerial Committee on Defence Cooperation below the Strategic Partnership Council.
“They famous with satisfaction the expansion of their joint defence cooperation together with quite a few ‘firsts; like the primary ever Land Forces train ‘Sada Tanseeq’, two rounds of the Naval workouts ‘Al Mohed Al Hindi’, many high-level visits, and coaching exchanges, in the direction of guaranteeing the safety and stability of the area,” the assertion mentioned.
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