At the quad summit in Washington, India and the US have stepped up their fight against terrorism. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden condemned cross-border terrorism and said that the 26/11 Mumbai attackers should be brought to justice.
Lashkar-e-Taiba is responsible for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people. Six Americans were also among the victims. Pakistan-based radical cleric Hafiz Saeed's Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) is the front organisation for the Lashkar-e-Taiba. Saeed is at Lahore's high-security Kot Lakhpat jail. The US has placed a bounty of USD 10 million on the UN-designated terrorist.
India has repeatedly called upon Pakistan to take credible, verifiable, and irreversible action against the terrorist networks.
A joint statement said that they will take concerted action against all terror groups, including those proscribed by the United Nations. It was the first bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden.
The statement issued by both nations said that they "denounced any use of terrorist proxies and emphasised the importance of denying any logistical, financial or military support to terrorist groups which could be used to launch or plan terror attacks".
The UN Security Council, headed by India last month, adopted a strong resolution against terrorism. Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla had said that the resolution "underlines terrorist individuals and entities designated by UN Security Council (resolution) 1267. This is of direct importance to India.
"The joint statement from Biden and Modi said that the upcoming US-India Counterterrorism Joint Working Group, Designations Dialogue, and renewed US-India Homeland Security Dialogue will further strengthen counterterrorism cooperation between the two countries.