India, May 26 -- India and Pakistan were "very far away" from a nuclear conflict during their recent clashes because the Indian side only struck at terrorist targets on Pakistani soil in a measured and non-escalatory manner, external affairs minister S Jaishankar has said.

Terror is a "very open business" in Pakistan and narratives about clashes between the two countries leading to a nuclear problem "encourages terrible activities like terrorism", Jaishankar said in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper during his just concluded visit to Germany.

Responding to a question about how close India and Pakistan were to a nuclear conflict, he said, "Very, very far away... We have terrorist targets. Those were very meas...