India, July 1 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has sent out a clear signal to Pakistan and the world in his latest interview, that India no longer differentiates between terror proxies and their sponsor countries.

He described the Pahalgam attack in which 27 civilians, mostly tourists from different parts of India, were killed, as "an act of economic warfare". "It was meant to destroy tourism in Kashmir, which was the mainstay of the economy," he said in an interview with the US magazine Newsweek in New York. "It was also meant to provoke religious violence because people were asked to identify their faith before they were killed," he added.

He explained India's tough stance thereafter under Operation Sindoor, which saw India u...