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 hostilities after four days of clashes. As a result of the close ties, Islamabad was also at the centre of global diplomatic efforts to mediate between Iran and the United States to end fighting in West Asia.Washington has continued to defend its engagement with Islamabad despite India’s longstanding concerns over Pakistan’s alleged support for cross-border terrorism. During his visit to India last week, US secretary of state Marco Rubio said in an interview that closer relations with Pakistan would not come at the expense of the US partnership with India.Rubio argued that engagement with Islamabad could give Washington greater influence over its decisions. “I think it allows us to have, hopefully, more influence over the decisions they make on a variety of topics,” he said. He also asserted that the US shared India’s concerns about terrorism, adding, “No country in the world does more to go after terrorism than the United States.”At the G20 meeting, Jaishankar also raised the consequences of attacks on civilian shipping, arguing that developing countries were bearing a disproportionate share of the economic costs.“The Global South is disproportionately bearing the consequences of attacks on civilian shipping and seafarers, jeopardising the availability and cost of fuel, food and fertilisers,” he wrote.The concern comes amid repeated attacks on commercial vessels in and around the Strait of Hormuz, as well as in the Black Sea and the Red Sea.This week, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said at a media briefing that said 22 Indians have lost their lives in the ongoing war in West Asia, 14 of whom were seafarers.The disruption of maritime routes has threatened the movement of energy supplies and other essential commodities, with the consequences extending to countries that depend on imports of oil, gas, food and fertilisers.Jaishankar also turned to the impact of trade practices and supply-chain disruptions on developing countries, arguing that their ability to industrialise was being undermined by the actions of larger economies.The “right to industrialise is being denied through the flooding of markets, weaponising supply chains, constricting market access and encouraging market distortions. This must cease,” he wrote.He also emphasised the importance of developing alternative and more resilient connectivity networks as countries seek to reduce their dependence on vulnerable trade routes and diversify their economic relationships. The minister pointed to the “importance of building resilient and alternate connectivity, as the world de-risks and diversifies”.India has pursued several connectivity initiatives to improve access to markets in Central Asia, West Asia and Europe, including the Chabahar port project in Iran and the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor. But, these have so far not taken off, with the Iran war and US sanctions impacting both projects in different ways.Jaishankar’s comments on connectivity and economic security were accompanied by a broader argument against military responses to international crises. “In the face of global challenges, military solutions will not work and diplomacy must be given a chance,” he wrote.The G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting is being chaired by Rubio in Atlanta on October 30 and 31, with Trump scheduled to host the leaders’ summit in Miami in December.Jaishankar is also scheduled to participate in a Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Saturday on the sidelines of the G20 gathering. It will be the grouping’s third ministerial meeting this year, following earlier meetings in New Delhi and Manila.