Narendra Prime Minister Mike Pence

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today told United States Vice President Mike Pence that Pakistan's act of "mainstreaming terrorists involved in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks" was a matter of serious concern for the international community.

In an interaction with Mr Pence ahead of the East Asia summit in Singapore, PM Modi claimed that all global terrorist attacks can be traced back to a single place of origin in India's neighborhood. This is what comes first and that of the 10th anniversary of the attacks.

"There was some understanding of how we can move forward in this cooperation," said Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale.

The Jammat-ud-Dawa and the Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation, two organizations belonging to 26/11 attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed, were taken off Pakistan's list of banned outfits after a presidential ordinance prohibiting them under United Nations resolution lapsed last month.

Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said Mr Pence and PM Modi had a "productive discussion on all aspects of global strategic partnership based on growing convergence of interests on regional and global issues". The two sides also held discussions on bilateral trade, and "agreed that there is a need to identify ways in which India and the United States can go about building a new relationship".

Mr Pence was quoted by the White House as saying that Washington encourages "free, fair and reciprocal trade" with India.

Cooperation in the fields of energy and defense is also mentioned in the meeting between the two leaders. "There was a lot of discussion on energy." "This is a new sector in Indo-US relations – we are starting to import oil and gas over $ 4 billion from the United States. the United States as a way of expanding trade, "said Mr Gokhale.

PM Modi stressed that the United States should recognize the opportunies in the field of defense equipment manufacture. The Prime Minister also raised the issue of the new restrictions on H1B visas before Mr Pence, stating that the United States has a treasury of talent and capacity to innovate.

(With inputs from PTI)