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Chidambaram also gave to US officials three lists of
terrorists and gangsters, including 60 Pakistanis killed by
Indian security forces in various encounters in different
parts of the country and another 10 arrested in the past year,
a top government official said in New Delhi.

Chidambaram had compiled the lists before leaving for the
US and shared it with American officials. "Their (the
terrorists') names and addresses in Pakistan were given in the
list," the official said.

At the end of his US visit, Chidambaram told reporters
here that he was going back to India with a "lot of ideas".

One of these was establishing something on the lines
of the National Counter-Terrorism Centre of the US which
spearheads American efforts to combat terrorism at home and
abroad by analysing threat perceptions and sharing information
with friendly countries.

During his visit, the Home Minister briefed the US
leadership about the ground realities about terrorism in South
Asia, had a first-hand experience of the steps being taken by
the US with regard to counter-terrorism and discussed various
issues of mutual interest. PTI