Eminent US lawmaker Joe Crowley has said there was need for greater counter-terrorism cooperation between India and the US.

Crowley said on the floor of the US House of Representatives that he believed that one of the most important decisions the US had made in recent years is to strengthen its relationship with the democratic nation of India.

With that relationship, one of its most important decisions had been to cooperate and coordinate on matters dealing with homeland security.

Crowley said, the fact was that both the US and India face threats of terrorist attacks. He said the people of the US looked on in horror as terrorists carried out the brutal Mumbai attacks.

In those attacks, terrorists killed not only Indians but Americans as well. He said the 9/11 and Mumbai attacks stressed the need to work together with India, and sustain and deepen that cooperation even further.

Crowley along with Congressman Ed Royce has moved an amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations Act 2013 in this regard.