India, May 24 -- The recent clashes between India and Pakistan were triggered by the "brutal terrorist attack" in Pahalgam and were not about a "conflict in Kashmir", and much of the world agreed with the actions taken by New Delhi, external affairs minister S Jaishankar has said.

Describing the recent events as a "conflict in Kashmir" would be akin to putting the perpetrator and the victim of the Pahalgam attack at the same level, Jaishankar said during at interaction at the DGAP or German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin late on Friday.

India targeted terrorists located in Pakistan, which has "for many, many years used terrorism as a kind of a tool in its attempts to pressure us", he said during an interactive session at the thi...