Jaishankar calls for crackdown on terror funding as India launches UNSC non-permanent seat bid

External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar says, "Even as the world strives to sustain growth and promote prosperity, some long-standing challenges continue to confront us. Significant among them is terrorism. For far too long, our efforts have concentrated on countering its symptoms. But that would only give us limited results unless we are focused on constricting its resource base. Our commitment is to concentrate on countering terror financing and encourage objective and evidence-based proposals for listing of terrorist groups."