With the legislation behind them, the Japanese minister said Tokyo was keen to get this going. This, he told TOI, was a coming together of Japan's Indo-Pacific policy and India's Act East policy. Therefore, we would like to connect and combine our Indo-Pacific strategy and India's Act East policy as a one big picture. If you place this within the rubric of Japan's Indo-Pacific strategy, you will get the larger picture. But in terms of counter-terrorism, our foreign minister told the Pakistanis they need to do more," he said.

Source: Economic Times January 22, 2018 04:07 UTC