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India, US to enhance co-operation to combat terrorism: PTI

This was decided at the second meeting of the Indo-US joint working group on counter-terrorism during which India conveyed its serious concern over Pakistan's sustained attempts at sponsoring cross-border terrorism in the name of a holy war.

It was agreed that inter-agency teams would share experience, exchange information and co-ordinate approaches and action to deal with the menace.

The American team was led by Michael A Sheehan, US co-ordinator for counter-terrorism while the Indian delegation was headed by Alok Prasad, joint secretary (Americas) in the external affairs ministry.

"The two sides unequivocally condemned all acts, methods and practices of terrorism as criminal and unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious, or any other nature that may be involved to justify them," a joint statement issued at the end of the two-day talks said.

The Indian delegation comprised officials from the ministries of external affairs and home besides the Central Bureau of Investigation and other law-enforcement agencies.

For the first time, an interagency group of counter-terrorism and narco-terrorism law enforcement officials was included at the delegation-level talks, a senior foreign official told reporters.

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