India, Oct. 29 -- India is ready to share counter-terrorism expertise with ASEAN member states and the bloc's dialogue partners, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday, offering know-how he described as proven in real operations rather than picked up in classrooms.

Addressing a conclave of ASEAN defence ministers and the grouping's dialogue partners at Cebu in the Philippines, he said the offer would be taken forward through joint exercises, capacity-building programmes and intelligence-sharing, and described India's record as "battle-tested".

Such cooperation, he said, would strengthen the collective capabilities of the ADMM-Plus grouping. India's experience, he added, had been built over decades of confronting cross-border se...