Manila, May 14 -- The 2nd meeting of the India-Philippines Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism was held on 13-14 May 2026 in Manila, Philippines. The meeting was co-chaired by Vinod Bahade, Joint Secretary (Counter Terrorism) in the Ministry of External Affairs of India and Marshall Louis M Alferez, Assistant Secretary of the Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines, as per a statement by the Ministry of External Affairs.

Both sides unequivocally and strongly condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, including cross- border terrorism. They further condemned the heinous terrorist attack on 22 April 2025 in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India and the terror incident on 10 November...