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New Delhi: At the G20 ministerial meeting in Atlanta, external affairs minister S. Jaishankar on Friday (October 30) warned against allowing “tactical calculations” to override concerns about terrorism, even as Washington’s ties with Pakistan continue to grow under President Donald Trump.

“Tactical calculations should not lead to overlooking the dangers of terrorism. It is a high-risk activity which has come back to bite even the practitioners,” Jaishankar wrote in a post on X after participating in the meeting’s first plenary.

While he didn’t take any names, India has been uneasy with Trump’s close relationship with Pakistan’s military leadership, particularly Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir.

Trump hosted Munir for a White House lunch in June 2025, an unprecedented gesture towards a serving Pakistani military chief without senior civilian officials accompanying him. The meeting took place weeks after the Pahalgam terror attack, which killed 26 people, and the subsequent military confrontation between India and Pakistan.

After that, Pakistan had nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, while the US president continues to claim credit for stopping the........

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