US, India share common targets in fighting terrorism: Ambassador Roemer
April 26th, 2011 - 10:12 pm ICT by ANINew Delhi, Apr 26 (ANI): U.S. Ambassador to India, Timothy J. Roemer, on Tuesday said both the nations shared common targets to combat militancy.
“This is something I have been saying for the past two years that the United States and India share common targets and common goals in our kind of terrorism fight. These people like Sajid Mir and Major Iqbal are people that both India and United States are interested in,” said Ambassador Roemer.
“It also reflects our progress on the CT MOU (Counter-Terrorism Memorandum of Understanding) that we signed last summer. 16 new initiatives for the United States in India to work on together to fight, to protect our people in the United States and India from the common enemy,” he added.
US prosecutors have charged four more Pakistani conspirators with carrying out the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks on behalf of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Those newly indicted were Sajid Mir, Abu Qahafa, Mazhar Iqbal, and a fourth defendant known only by the alias ‘Major Iqbal’.
The US envoy also stressed on the fact that both the countries have been working hard for the over all development of India under several schemes.
“We have under the direction of President Obama concentrated on both hard infrastructure and soft infrastructure projects in India,” said Ambassador Roemer.
“President in his global partnership with India wants to make sure that all people have a chance to be included in the progress inclusive growth in India and some of these social infrastructure programmes here at the settlement that we have been working on for several months, for education progress, for health care progress and for cook stove technology progress are really helping the residents of this local settlements,” he added. (ANI)
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