India, July 6 -- The BRICS grouping strongly condemned the Pahalgam terror attack on Sunday and called for combating the cross-border movement of terrorists, terror financing and safe havens, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said supporting terrorists for political gain should be unacceptable.

The terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir on April 22, which claimed the lives of 26 civilians and led to four days of hostilities between India and Pakistan after New Delhi targeted terror infrastructure across the border, was denounced in a strongly worded leaders' declaration adopted at the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

India had stepped up efforts to secure the bloc's backing for its new approach to fighting cross-border terror.

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