NEW DELHI, March 3 (UPI) -- Terrorism based in Pakistan is a "grave threat" to the entire world, India said Tuesday after gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan national cricket team's bus.
External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash called the attack in Lahore, Pakistan, in which eight people were killed and six cricket team members were wounded, "shocking" and "audacious," the Press Trust of India reported.
"Terrorism based in Pakistan is a grave threat to the entire world," Prakesh said. "It is in Pakistan's own interest to take prompt, meaningful and decisive steps to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure once and for all."
Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma told PTI the attack "underscores the enormity of the threat" from terrorists based in Pakistan, noting that India already had been insisting that Islamabad dismantle terrorist infrastructures in the country.
The bus attack has once again highlighted the need to do so, Sharma said.
