Under pressure but not down , PM Nawaz Sharif rightly asks USA stand with Pakistan against India !

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  Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with head of US Institute of Peace Nancy Lindborg. —APP
  WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif urged the United States to take Pakistan's side in its long-standing dispute with rival nuclear power India or run the risk of escalating conflict.
  
  Speaking in Washington on Friday, a day after talks with US President Barack Obama, Nawaz said Pakistan was ready to help Afghanistan revive peace talks with Taliban rebels.
  
  But he made it clear that his main priority was seeking international support to compel India to negotiate over the future of the disputed province of Kashmir.
  
  The premier charged India of stepping up ceasefire violations across the Line of Control and Working Boundary.
  
  “While refusing dialogue, India is engaged in a major arms buildup, regrettably with the active assistance of several powers,” he said, in an address to the US Institute for Peace.
  
  “It has adopted dangerous military doctrines. This will compel Pakistan to take several countermeasures to preserve credible deterrence.”
  
  “Obviously the Pakistan-India relationship poses the most difficult and urgent challenge,” Nawaz said.
  
  “I believe a close review of some of the existing assumptions and analysis and greater attention to Pakistan's views and interests would be useful in enabling Washington to play a constructive role in averting the ever present danger of escalation and in promoting stability in South Asia."
  
  He also noted “a stream of hostile statements by the Indian political and military leadership.”
  
  At the White House on Thursday, Nawaz and Obama had agreed to help Afghanistan re-start peace talks that broke off in early August when it emerged that Taliban leader Mullah Omar had been dead for two years.
  
  Pakistan has been accused of covertly supporting the Afghan Taliban in its guerrilla campaign against Kabul and allied Nato forces.
  
  Nawaz insisted his country has no interest in backing the Taliban's campaign of violence, but pleaded that Pakistan “cannot bring them to the table and be asked to kill them at the same time."
  
  Of far more importance, he suggested, was Islamabad's relationship with India, pressuring Washington not to continue pursuing warmer ties with his giant neighbour.
  
  “There is no alternative for the two countries but to resume a comprehensive dialogue to resolve all outstanding issues, including the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir,” he said.
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  Out of blue , PM nawaz Sharif has told USA to solve Kashmir problem & stop Indian aggression if they want a secure & peace full Afghanistan .
• I think that's the best of answer any of Pakistani PM in the history , ever have given to ever-demanding USA .
• So its simple Afghanistan vs Kashmir , USA has to pick up both or none ?
• What you think , pls share your oppinion with out trolling .
• & pls , don't go off topic !

 

[That Guy]

For the first time in a long time, a civilian leader has shown that he's tough.

 

[Nefarious]

Respect!

 

[JOEY TRIBIANI]

Great and unexpected move by nawaz .

 

[Khanivore]

Now that is something unexpected from Nawaz. For the first time he is stepping up as a worthy civilian PM. We must commend him for this.

 

[Hurter]

Something good has been done.

 

[mb444]

There is a paradigm shift in US policy. As the sun sets over Pax Americana it is seeking alies against the rise of the Chinese ... Thus the pivot towards India ......

It will only delay the inevitable .... Pakistan is well set in its strategic calibration vis-a-via China ..... As time passes US will become irrelevant in Asia .

These are just posturing for show....

 

[Areesh]

Nawaz Sharif has done unexpectedly a good job this time on all issues whether it is Kashmir, LOC violations, Indian support to terror inside Pakistan, Tactical Nukes etc. Well done Mr Sharif. More power to you.

 

[Dil Pakistan]

At best, all I can say is, he was TOLD to say so.

This is a strategic, intelligent and 'risky' move, and NS is not known for his brains or balls.

 

[TMA]

Brave...Perhaps? However surely they who advise Nawaz Sharif know that the USA is not really interested in ending the conflict and the oppression of Kashmiris. As they who control power in the USA are strategic allies of Bharat and this would risk that relationship.

 

[airmarshal]

For the first time, I have liked Nawaz Sharif.

 

[Sugarcane]

NS is handling affairs fairly.

 

[Knight Rider]

King Nawaz is now thinking right... Good move

 

[VCheng]

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif urged the United States to take Pakistan's side in its long-standing dispute with rival nuclear power India or run the risk of escalating conflict.

"Are you with us or against us" in reverse?

Seriously, pressuring USA or anyone else by claiming to escalate conflict will not work here. Nuclear blackmail only hardens the resolve of other parties to take care of the problem by other means.

 

[salarsikander]

"Are you with us or against us" in reverse?

Seriously, pressuring USA or anyone else by claiming to escalate conflict will not work here. Nuclear blackmail only hardens the resolve of other parties to take care of the problem by other means.

Hi,

It worked with Henry kissinger's call. Where he threatened to bomb us back to stone age !

Or should I put emphasis on your statement, that it will only hardens the resolve of other parties to take care of the problem through other means. ( US's failure in Afghanistan)

You are right. forcing or imposing something on other never works, Especially unjust invasion