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India, US to boost hunt for Indian plane hijackers

NEW DELHI: India and the United States will intensify efforts to bring to justice the hijackers of an Indian Airlines plane, a joint statement said.

"The two sides agreed to intensify their joint operations to ensure the perpetrators of the hijackers of Indian Airlines Flight 814 are brought to justice as part of their joint efforts to combat international terrorism," said a statement at the end of the first meeting of a Joint Working Group on Counterterrorism in Washington.

A copy of the joint statement was released on Wednesday by the Indian foreign ministry.

"The two sides unequivocally condemned all acts, methods, and practices of terrorism as criminal and unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them," the statement said.-Reuters