India, May 7 -- India's leadership on Wednesday reached out to members of the UN Security Council and strategic partners to explain the reasons for the strikes on terror infrastructure in Pakistan and to make it clear that New Delhi will retaliate if Islamabad decides to escalate, people familiar with the matter said.

Soon after the military strikes conducted under Operation Sindoor that targeted bases of terror groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, external affairs minister S Jaishankar dialled his counterparts from France, Germany, Japan and Spain, while National Security Adviser Ajit Doval spoke to his counterparts from the US, China, the UK, Russia and Saudi Arabia....