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Making sure that Pak not using military aid against India: US
Lalit K Jha
Washington, Jun 9 (PTI) Addressing one of India's
major concerns, Obama Administration's point man for South
Asia has said that US is taking appropriate steps to ensure
that the military aid given to Pakistan is not used against
India.
The issue was discussed during last week's Strategic
Dialogue between India and the US; which was co-chaired by
India's External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton.
"I think they (India) understand that we are trying to
build up Pakistan's counter-insurgency capabilities and we are
seeking end use assurances to insure that the weapons that are
provided will not be used against India," Assistant Secretary
of State for South and Central Asia, Robert Blake said in
response to a question at a State Department Blog Forum.
This is for the first time US has come out in public
to state that it was taking steps to ensure that its military
aid to Pakistan would not be used against India.
This has been one of the major concerns of the Indian
leaders which were effectively conveyed to their American
counterparts in the last week's strategic dialogue held at the
Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department.
Blake said India and the US have a shared interest in
stabilisation of Pakistan; and New Delhi supports the US' Pak
policy.
"They believe we have a shared interest in helping to
stabilise Pakistan, and they're certainly well aware that a
spiral down would not be in India's interests," Blake said
during a conversation on a State Department blog Forum.
Participating in the blog forum, Teresita Schaffer,
director of South Asia Program at the CSIS - a Washington-
based think-tank, said US, India, and Pakistan share an
interest in seeing Pakistan as a state emerge more strongly
from this terrible time that it is going through.
"This will not mean that India and Pakistan agree on a
whole lot of stuff. But underneath it all, there is this very
important interest in common that we shouldn't forget about,"
she said. PTI
Washington, Jun 9 (PTI) Addressing one of India's
major concerns, Obama Administration's point man for South
Asia has said that US is taking appropriate steps to ensure
that the military aid given to Pakistan is not used against
India.
The issue was discussed during last week's Strategic
Dialogue between India and the US; which was co-chaired by
India's External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton.
"I think they (India) understand that we are trying to
build up Pakistan's counter-insurgency capabilities and we are
seeking end use assurances to insure that the weapons that are
provided will not be used against India," Assistant Secretary
of State for South and Central Asia, Robert Blake said in
response to a question at a State Department Blog Forum.
This is for the first time US has come out in public
to state that it was taking steps to ensure that its military
aid to Pakistan would not be used against India.
This has been one of the major concerns of the Indian
leaders which were effectively conveyed to their American
counterparts in the last week's strategic dialogue held at the
Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department.
Blake said India and the US have a shared interest in
stabilisation of Pakistan; and New Delhi supports the US' Pak
policy.
"They believe we have a shared interest in helping to
stabilise Pakistan, and they're certainly well aware that a
spiral down would not be in India's interests," Blake said
during a conversation on a State Department blog Forum.
Participating in the blog forum, Teresita Schaffer,
director of South Asia Program at the CSIS - a Washington-
based think-tank, said US, India, and Pakistan share an
interest in seeing Pakistan as a state emerge more strongly
from this terrible time that it is going through.
"This will not mean that India and Pakistan agree on a
whole lot of stuff. But underneath it all, there is this very
important interest in common that we shouldn't forget about,"
she said. PTI
