Obama’s tip help voices regard over LoC tensions
WASHINGTON: US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday appreciated efforts done by Pakistan to foster assent and fortitude in South Asia.
In a assembly with Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs Syed Tariq Fatemi, Blinken also uttered regard over augmenting tragedy between Pakistan and India along a Line of Control.
He remarkable that Pakistan’s appearance in a Heart of Asia Conference hold in India on Dec 4, and a progressing oath during a Brussels discussion to yield $500 million for growth projects in Afghanistan were petrify and certain stairs reflecting Pakistan’s joining to assent and wealth of a western neighbour.
Blinken also praised Pakistan’s munificence in hosting millions of Afghan refugees for over 4 decades and uttered appreciation on a new preference to extend a deadline for a repatriation of refugees.
Fatemi briefed Blinken on a magnitude of ceasefire violations by India in new weeks with sold anxiety to targeting of civilians opposite a LoC.
The large and systematic tellurian rights violations in a Indian Occupied Kashmir were ensuing in hundreds of casualties and debilitating injuries to a civilians, including women and children, he added.
Blinken reiterated a US position on a need for shortening tragedy in South Asia and compelling closer team-work and discourse between a dual largest countries of a region.
The assembly reviewed a shared family between Pakistan and a United States, with a dual sides expressing compensation on several achievements in areas of assent and security, counterterrorism, counterclaim and mercantile cooperation.
It was concluded that Pakistan-US attribute was critical to informal as good as tellurian assent and confidence and should continue to be strengthened underneath a subsequent administration.
Fatemi uttered wish a dual sides would resume their unchanging rendezvous on a shared lane after a execution of ongoing transition process.
Media meeting
Earlier, in his communication with a media Fatemi underscored that Pakistan was looking brazen to operative closely with a new US administration and wanted a shared family to serve strengthen in future.
“Once president-elect Donald Trump assumes his office, Pakistan is looking brazen to suggestive rendezvous with a USA in serve improving shared family and personification a purpose in a context of informal and general issues,” he said.
He familiar a media about his ongoing visit, observant he dictated to correlate with a stream US administration and also to strech out to a officials who are expected to join a new administration following a new US presidential elections.
He pronounced Pakistan could play an instrumental purpose in compelling assent not usually in Afghanistan though in a whole region. Highlighting Pakistan’s steadfast joining to putting an finish to terrorism and militancy, Fatemi pronounced Pakistan has mislaid some-more than 5,000 army group in a fight opposite terrorism. He also briefed a media on a stairs taken underneath a National Action Plan to opposite terrorism.
He combined that Pakistan currently has distant reduction and distant few incidents of militancy and terrorism. At present, he said, terrorists are on a run and are targeting soothing targets out of frustration.
Fatemi also underlined a need for a discourse between Pakistan and India to solve a long-standing emanate of Kashmir between both a countries.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 7th, 2016.
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