US backs direct dialogue between India, Pakistan on problems with concern

By Press Trust of India: The US helps direct dialogue between India and Pakistan on problems with concern, a senior Biden administration official has mentioned.

There has been continued pressure in ties between India and Pakistan on plenty of points, together with Islamabad’s continued help to cross-border terrorism and the Kashmir problem.

India has been sustaining that it needs regular neighbourly relations with Pakistan whereas insisting that the onus is on Islamabad to create an surroundings that is freed from terror and hostility for such an engagement. India has additionally asserted that Jammu and Kashmir “was, is and will” at all times be a part of the nation.

“As we have long said, we support direct dialogue between India and Pakistan on issues of concern. That has long been our position,” State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller advised reporters on Wednesday at his each day information convention.

Miller’s remarks got here two days after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif provided to carry talks with India to deal with all severe and excellent points.

Bilateral relations between Islamabad and New Delhi have been tense since August 2019 when India modified the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir.

On India’s ties with Pakistan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has mentioned that it’s not potential for India to have regular relations with the neighbouring nation till the coverage of cross-border terrorism is abrogated.

“We can’t allow terrorism to be normalised; we can not allow that to become the basis for getting us into discussions with Pakistan. To me it is a fairly common sense proposition,” he mentioned in June.