External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar remarked on Sunday that India failed to respond effectively to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, asserting that any similar incident in the future would be met with a decisive response.

Jaishankar emphasised, “We should not have a repeat of what happened in Mumbai. That there was a terror attack and there was no response.” He described Mumbai as a symbol of counter-terrorism for both India and the world. The minister recalled that during India's tenure on the UN Security Council, the country chaired the counter-terrorism committee and held a meeting in the very hotel that was attacked in 2008.