India, July 18 -- The United States on Thursday designated 'The Resistance Front', which claimed responsibility for the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in India, as terrorists.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the terror outfit as a "front and proxy" of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a UN-designated terrorist group that is based in Pakistan.

In a statement, Rubio said, the terrorist designation "demonstrates the Trump administration's commitment to protecting our national security interests, countering terrorism, and enforcing President (Donald) Trump's call for justice for the Pahalgam attack."

On April 22, terrorists descended down the Baisaran valley in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam and opened fire at tourists in the area, killing 26 peopl...