Obama to focus on Pak-India ties

[Omar1984]

Obama to focus on Pak-India ties​

WASHINGTON—Pakistan and Afghanistan, besides the global economy and bilateral business ties will be an important part of the President Barack Obama’s visit to India next month, the White House said Saturday.

“I anticipate that the world economy and our bilateral business relationships with India will be an important aspect of that trip,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters. “From a security standpoint, obviously Afghanistan and Pakistan and how that is all interrelated in that area of Asia, particularly with India, will be a big focus of what the President discusses with the (Indian) Prime Minister then,” Mr. Gibbs said in response to a question.

Mr. Obama is scheduled to visit India in early November. Dates of his trip has not been announced yet.

Earlier, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake had termed President Obama’s visit as ‘landmark’ and said that he foresee the great nations becoming ever closer in the years and decades to come.

Meanwhile, US Congressman Dan Burton has sought the intervention of the Obama administration in resolving the Kashmir issue, claiming this has direct impact on the global war against terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“Regrettably, the conflict has garnered little attention from the American media and zero attention from the White House,” Burton, a Republican, said in his speech on the floor of the US House of Representatives.

“During the Presidential campaign, President Obama pledged to appoint a special envoy to the region and declared... that solving the ‘Kashmir crisis’ was one of his ‘critical tasks.’ So far, this has been a promise unfulfilled,” said the Congressman from Indiana.

He said he believed that “an end to the violence and uncertainty in Indian Occupied Kashmir would be widely welcomed in India and Pakistan as well as by our military commanders in Afghanistan.”

 

[Omar1984]

Thank you US Congressman Dan Burton.

 

[hecj]

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look how much u.s care for kashmir.one phone call changes the atmosphere.
let the obama come,i will see how much he talk abt kashmir.

 

[somebozo]

Let US manage its relation with China first. They have no understand of Pakistan history or necessity let alone guiding its foreign policy!

 

[Omar1984]

Congressman reminds Obama of Kashmir pledge​

Washington—Dan Burton, a congressman considered specialist on South Asian affairs, reminding President Barack Obama of his Kashmir pledges during presidential campaign, has urged the US administration for intervention to resolve the Kashmir dispute which “directly impacts our sons and daughters fighting the global war on terror in Afghanistan and Pakistan”.

“During the presidential campaign President Obama pledged to appoint a special envoy on the region and declared….that solving Kashmir crisis was one of his critical tasks. So far this has been a promise unfulfilled”, he recalls.

Linking Kashmir with broader scenario of Afghanistan and Pakistan Dan Burton advocates that “an end to the violence and uncertainty in Kashmir would be widely welcomed in India and Pakistan as well as by our military commanders in Afghanistan”.

“The longer the Pakistani government focuses on staring down India along the Line of Control in Kashmir the harder it will be to defeat the extremists groups threatening the stability of the Pakistani government, as well as the elements of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda using Pakistan as a safe haven to launch attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan”, he states in his weekend speech on the floor of the House of Representatives.

 

[abhi_baba]

^
Joo-Yindoo lobby will make sure that this clown is not re-elected :p

 

[Kinetic]

Dan Burton will not make any difference in USA's view. India and Pakistan should solve their issues bilaterally, no third country will intervene.

 

[KS]

What Mischievous,misleading,own's own POV imposed upon title.

It is not Obama who said he will focus on Kashmir but an obscure Congressman called Dan Burton.

No need to take this seriously.

And this is the part that Obama is obviously interested in ,according to official White house Press release.

Pakistan and Afghanistan, besides the global economy and bilateral business ties will be an important part of the President Barack Obama’s visit to India next month, the White House said Saturday.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

More tug and pull on the horses rope , a kick on the donkey's arse few days ago and today trying to control the donkey with a rope to ease the donkey into doing what master wants


We really need a gov that says sorry we will solve it on our own don't need your intervention

 

[Hawkish]

keeping the Kashmir issue alive is central to selling arms to India and Pakistan. We need to support our defense industries (ever heard of the term 'military industrial complex'?)

We will keep supporting both the sides.

 

[SandsofTime]

keeping the Kashmir issue alive is central to selling arms to India and Pakistan. We need to support our defense industries (ever heard of the term 'military industrial complex'?)

We will keep supporting both the sides.

Yes please. We need more arms

Takes a deep puff of pot

BTW, when is the next batch of F-35 arriving?

 

[Hawkish]

With India as Neighbor you really don't need aircrafts. It will be a long way before they put their words in to action. What you need now, is credibility as a responsible nation. Rein the militants. I work with many Pakistanis and Indians here who are super smart compared to the average. If this intelligence is used constructively, Pakistan can be in the top 10 nation instead of the bottom 10 now. What in the hell is happened to your leaders? Most need to be executed

 

[Urbanized Greyhound]

With India as Neighbor you really don't need aircrafts. It will be a long way before they put their words in to action. What you need now, is credibility as a responsible nation. Rein the militants. I work with many Pakistanis and Indians here who are super smart compared to the average. If this intelligence is used constructively, Pakistan can be in the top 10 nation instead of the bottom 10 now. What in the hell is happened to your leaders? Most need to be executed

you're quite right but that's the way things work in South Asia......we seem to have got used to it .....

btw .....our govt at least buys less than 10 % of our defense stuff from the U.S, Pakistan is slowly and deliberately looking towards china for arms....so its not gonna make much of a difference to the U.S defense industry.......

 

[karan.1970]

I love the way no one now talks of Indo-Pak. Heard this term after a long long time. That too seems to have been fabricated. Earlier, US presidents used to talk about India in Pakistan and about Pakistan in India. Now they want to discuss Afghanistan and Pakistan with India..

Great subtle shift.. Innit?

 

[arya]

keeping the Kashmir issue alive is central to selling arms to India and Pakistan. We need to support our defense industries (ever heard of the term 'military industrial complex'?)

We will keep supporting both the sides.

You are right we both loves u very much