New Delhi, Sept. 12 -- The 17th Meeting of the India-France Joint Working Group (JWG) on Counter Terrorism (CT) was held in Paris, France on 11 September 2025. The Indian delegation was led by Joint Secretary (CT), Ministry of External Affairs of the Republic of India, K.D. Dewal, and the French delegation, by Olivier Caron, French Counter-Terrorism Ambassador.Both sides condemned the dastardly terrorist attack on innocent civilians on 22 April 2025 in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The two sides exchanged views on the current threat assessment in the respective countries, including State-sponsored cross-border terrorism, activities of terrorists in the respective regions and the terror threat in the Middle East. Both sides also asse...