Encourage India, Pakistan to resolve issues through dialogue: America

Washington: The United States has said it will not “come into the middle of the situation” following Pakistan’s allegations against India and urged both countries to avoid escalating tensions and resolve differences through dialogue. US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller’s reaction came when he was asked about Washington’s stance on a recent UK media report which quoted Pakistani officials as alleging that India had planted people associated with terrorism and extremism on Pakistani soil. Have committed murders. Indian officials have called the allegations “false and malicious anti-India propaganda”.

“We are following media reports regarding this issue. We have no comment on the underlying allegations, but certainly, we are not going to intervene in this situation, we encourage both sides to avoid tensions and find a resolution through dialogue,” Matthew Miller said in a statement. Said during. A press conference. Miller said this when he was asked about the American reaction to the recent report of ‘The Guardian’ newspaper. Earlier in January too, Pakistan’s attempts to link the death of two Pakistani nationals to India were rejected by the External Affairs Ministry and official spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal termed it as “false and malicious anti-India propaganda”.

Jaiswal had said, “We have seen media reports regarding some comments of the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan. This is Pakistan’s latest attempt to spread false and malicious anti-India propaganda. As the world knows, Pakistan has long been a hub of terrorism, organized crime and illegal international activities. India and several other countries have publicly warned Pakistan that it will be consumed by its culture of terror and violence. Pakistan will reap whatever it sows. Blaming others for one’s misdeeds can neither be a justification nor a solution.” Jaiswal made the comments when Pakistan Foreign Secretary Muhammad Cyrus Sajjad Qazi claimed that Islamabad had “credible evidence” of links between Indian agents and the killing of two Pakistani nationals – Shahid Latif and Muhammad Riaz – in Sialkot and Rawalakot.

Latif, who was shot at a mosque in Sialkot, has been designated as a terrorist in India, Dawn reports. Riyaz, formerly associated with terrorist organization Jamaat-ud-Dawah, was killed in Rawalakot, The Express Tribune reported. In May last year, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had said that “victims of terrorism do not sit together with perpetrators of terrorism”. Addressing a press conference after the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers meeting, Jaishankar criticized Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s remarks on “weaponizing terrorism”.

“Victims of terrorism do not sit with perpetrators of terrorism to discuss terrorism. The victims of terrorism defend themselves, they respond to acts of terrorism, they call it out, they legitimize it and that is exactly what is happening. Coming here and propagating these hypocritical words as if we are in the same boat,” he said.

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