Darjeeling, April 24 -- Former Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Thursday condemned the terrorist attack in Pahalgam and alleged that Pakistan has resorted to terrorism every time it feels that India is making progress.

"Their (Pakistan) effort is always to distract India, to weaken India, to ensure that the objectives that the people of India and the leadership have put into place are somehow you know stymied and somehow I think they want to reverse the clock through terrorism, and we've always seen that Pakistan has reverted to terrorism every time it feels that India is making progress whether it is 26/11, Puwama or Pahalgam...So a response to this has to be very, very strong, not just from India but from the entire internat...