India's actions in occupied Kashmir causing regional tensions: Pakistan US Ambassador Khan

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WASHINGTON: Pakistan's ambassador to the United States Asad Majeed Khan on Tuesday said India's aggressive and unilateral actions posed a grave threat to an already very tense situation.

In an appearance on Fox News, Khan said, “Unilaterally changing the status of a region which has been seen by the international community over the years as a disputed territory has really put the region at the verge of a serious conflict."

"They are trying to rewrite history and they have tried to deprive the people of their identity. They have unilaterally tried to settle an issue which has been there on the United Nations (UN) agenda for almost 70 years,” the Pakistani enjoy said.

Responding to question about how Pakistan and India could de-escalate tensions, Khan said it falls to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lead the calls for peace.

"I think the provocation clearly has come from India," he said. "Prime Minister Imran Khan was here. He spoke to you personally. He also met President Trump at the White House. And we've been very consistent in making all the overtures for peace to India. Unfortunately, all those gestures have not been reciprocated."

US should force India to take back decision to revoke Kashmir’s status: ambassador Khan

Khan added, "It is for the United Nations... it is for friends United States and other international players — they need to intervene."

Earlier this month, the US president had once again offered to mediate between Pakistan and India on the Kashmir dispute.

“If they [Pakistan and India] wanted somebody to intervene or to help them,” Trump said in response to a question from a reporter at the White House about his earlier offer to mediate the Kashmir issue, “I spoke with Pakistan about that, and I spoke, frankly, to India about it. But that’s been going on, that battle, for a long time."


https://www.geo.tv/latest/244863-in...mir-causing-regional-tensions-ambassador-khan

 

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Pakistan might redeploy forces from the Afghanistan to the Kashmir frontier

Pakistan's U.S. ambassador says his country might redeploy forces from the Afghanistan border to the Kashmir frontier.

Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States raised the possibility Monday that his country might redeploy troops from the Afghanistan border to the Kashmir frontier, a shift that could complicate American peace talks with the Taliban.

Such a possibility, coming just as Pakistan’s longstanding Kashmir crisis with India has escalated, could add a new element to the peace negotiations, which are said to be in the final stages and would end nearly two decades of American military entanglement in Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s ambassador, Asad Majeed Khan, emphasized in an interview with The New York Times editorial board that the Kashmir and Afghanistan issues were separate and that he was not attempting to link them. On the contrary, he said, Pakistan hoped the American talks with the Taliban would succeed and that his country was actively supporting them.

“We are doing all that we can and will continue,” Mr. Khan said. “It’s not an either-or situation.”

Nonetheless, Mr. Khan said, India’s crackdown on the disputed region of Kashmir, on Pakistan’s eastern border with India, “could not have come at a worse time for us,” because the Pakistanis have sought to strengthen military control along the western border with Afghanistan, an area long infiltrated by Taliban militants, as part of the effort to help end the Afghanistan conflict by denying the group a safe haven.

“We have our hands full” on the western border, Mr. Khan said, adding, “If the situation escalates on the eastern border, we will have to undertake redeployments.”

Right now in Islamabad, he said, “we are not thinking about anything but what is happening on our eastern border.”

The ambassador spoke a week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India abruptly canceled the limited autonomy that Indian-controlled Kashmir has held since the 1940s.

Mr. Modi’s decision was greeted enthusiastically in India and instantly raised tensions with Pakistan, which claims part of Kashmir. India, which is majority Hindu, and Pakistan, majority Muslim, have fought two wars over Kashmir, which also has a Muslim majority.

“Pakistan as a punching bag sells in India,” Mr. Khan said.

There has been little communication between the two countries over the past week, the ambassador said, and the crisis “unfortunately, I suspect, is going to get worse.”

“We are two big countries, with very large militaries, with nuclear capability and a history of conflict, so I would not like to burden your imagination on that one,” he said. “But obviously if things get worse, things get worse.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/world/asia/pakistan-afghanistan-taliban-kashmir.html

 

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No Mr.Khan, it is Pakistan who is creating the problems.If they mind their own business then nothing will happen.But since last 70 years Pakistan has made it their business to meddle in Indian affairs.

 

[Gabbar Singh]

US should force India to take back decision to revoke Kashmir’s status: ambassador Khan

The Ambassador is living in cloud cuckoo land.