KARACHI:
The United States and India have strongly condemned the use of terroristproxies and cross-border terrorism while calling upon Pakistan to take“irreversible action” to ensure that its soil is not used for terroristattacks against any other country.
The exhortation from the two nations came in astatementlinkby them at the end of the “Fourth Annual US-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue”which was preceded by an hour-long virtual meeting between Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and President Joe Biden.
Participants of the dialogue, held in Washington on April 11, wereSecretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd J AustinIII from the United States and Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh andMinister of External Affairs Dr S Jaishankar from India.
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“The ministers strongly condemned any use of terrorist proxies andcross-border terrorism in all its forms and called for the perpetrators ofthe 26/11 Mumbai attack, and Pathankot attack, to be brought to justice,”reads the joint statement.
The 26/11 attack was reference to the nearly 60-hour in-sync rampages by 10terrorists on a railway station, two luxury hotels and a Jewish centre onNovember 26, 2008, in which as many as 166 people were killed.
