India, US call for bringing perpetrators of 26/11 Mumbai attacks to justice

Washington DC: India and the United States have condemned cross-border terrorism and called for the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to be brought to justice.

A joint statement issued after the first bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden said that the two leaders reaffirmed that the two sides “reaffirmed that there is a “concrete action against all terrorist groups, including those banned by the UNSCR 1267 Sanctions Committee”. will take action.” White House on Friday.

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He stressed the importance of denying any military, financial or military aid to terrorist groups that could be used to launch or plan terrorist attacks.

Prime Minister Modi and President Biden condemned any use of terrorist proxies.

The joint statement further said that the two leaders noted that the upcoming US-India Counter Terrorism Joint Working Group, Designation Dialogue and the renewed US-India Homeland Security Dialogue will further strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation between the two countries, including intelligence gathering. The areas of sharing and law enforcement are included. cooperation, PTI reported.

Pakistan-based Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) is the flagship organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is responsible for carrying out the 26 November 2008 Mumbai terror attack.

At least 166 people, including six Americans, were killed in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

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UN-designated terrorist Saeed is currently lodged in the high-security Kot Lakhpat Jail in Pakistan’s Lahore city.

India has repeatedly called upon Islamabad to take credible, verifiable and irreversible action against terrorist networks and bring the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to justice.

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