India, July 18 -- External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday welcomed the US government's decision to designate The Resistance Front (TRF) as a terrorist organisation.

The statement comes as the United States has designated TRF, which claimed responsibility for the deadly Pahalgam attack in Jammu and Kashmir, as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity.

In a post on X, Jaishankar said, "A strong affirmation of India-US counter-terrorism cooperation. Appreciate Marco Rubio and US state departmrnt for designating TRF-a Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) proxy-as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). It claimed responsibility for the April...