India, Liberia launch 'group of friends' to counter Red Sea shipping attacks; Jaishankar hits back at Pakistan

Indian External Affairs Minister Jaishankar, at the UN, condemned attacks on commercial shipping in the Gulf and Red Sea as 'simply indefensible' and announced a 'group of friends' with Liberia to address the issue. He sharply rebuked a Pakistani journalist's question, calling Pakistan a 'terrorist country'. The initiative signals a multilateral push to secure maritime trade routes, though its concrete measures remain unspecified.