Washington DC, July 26 -- Pakistan's foreign minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar defended Islamabad's stance on the proscribed terror group The Resistance Front, shortly after the United States listed the outfit as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO). The Resistance Front - which India and the United States believe is an offshoot of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba - claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.

"It is obviously a sovereign decision of the United States to designate the TRF. We have no issue. And we welcome, if they have any evidence, that they are involved," said Dar at an event in Washington DC. Dar met US secretary of state Marco Rubio earlier on Friday.

"Linking the TRF to the Lashkar-e-Taiba is wr...