New Delhi, July 19 -- India has welcomed the United States government's decision to designate The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), as a foreign terrorist organisation.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday announced that the US has officially designated The Resistance Front (TRF) as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO), nearly four months after the deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam.

Hailing the US decision, the Ministry of External Affairs, in a statement on Friday, said, "The Government of India welcomes the decision of the United States Department of State to designate The Resistance Front (TRF) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and as a Specia...