New Delhi: Principles are selectively applied, and what is preached is not necessarily practised, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, tacitly taking a dig at the United States and the rest of the West for accusing India of funding the war in Ukraine and pressing it to stop buying oil from Russia.

He also subtly hit out at the US and European Union’s sanctions on Russia and Iran, noting that the constrictions on energy trade were resulting in market distortions.

Jaishankar, who had a meeting with United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier in the day, said at the East Asia Summit in the capital of Malaysia later in the day that the world should have zero tolerance against terrorism, and the right of the nations to defend against terrorism could

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