AT A time when ties between India and the US are strained over punitive tariffs, New Delhi and Washington have come together to cooperate on counter-terrorism. And, the Quad members also joined in Delhi to work on ways to expand cooperation to combat terrorism under the framework of the grouping.

Officials from India, US, Japan and Australia met in Delhi for the two-day Quad Counter Terrorism Working Group meeting this week and “unequivocally condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, including cross-border terrorism”.

Separately, Indian and US officials also held a meeting of their joint working group (JWG) on counter-terrorism and ‘designations dialogue’ on December 3 in New Delhi.

Vinod Bahade, Joint Secretary (counter-terrorism) in the Ministry of External Affairs, a

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