In a veiled attack on Pakistan, India on Wednesday condemned the use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy, describing the menace as the biggest threat to international peace and to the sovereignty of states as well as pluralist and open societies.
“Your country, like my own, has suffered the horrors of this scourge of humanity. Terrorism today has global reach, no city remains safe.
There is a new level of threat to pluralist and open societies,” Vice President Hamid Ansari said in his address to officers of the National Defence College here in the Nigerian capital.
“Today, the biggest threat to international peace, and to the sovereignty of States, is Terrorism. Kautilya called it ‘secret war’,” he said while speaking on ‘Emerging Security Imperatives in the context of India-Nigeria relations’.