US and India have firmly blamed terrorist proxies and cross-border terrorism and called on Pakistan to take “irreversible steps” to ensure its territory will be not used for terrorist attacks on other countries.
The caution of the two nations came in a statement issued by 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 Minister Narendra Modi and the President Joe Bidden.
The participants in the dialogue, which took place in Washington on April 11, were Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III of the United States and Secretary of Defense Rajnath Singh and Secretary of Defence State Dr S. Jaishankar from India.
“The ministers criticised in strongest possible terms the use of terrorist proxies and transnational terrorism in all its forms and called for the perpetrators of the 26/11 and the attack in Pathankot will be brought to justice,” reads the joint statement.
The attack of 26/11 was a reference to the nearly 60-hour synchronised riots by ten terrorists at a train station, two luxury hotels and a Jewish centre on November 26, 2008, which killed 166 people.
