Darrier and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ishaq Dar will meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on July 25, officials confirmed on Wednesday.
It will be DAR’s first official meeting with secretary Rubio. The agenda will include an examination of Pakistani links, regional developments, in particular recent tensions of India-Pakistan and other questions of mutual interest.
The spokesman for the US State Department Tammy Bruce said that senior officials of the two nations are present and that she would attend the meeting.
Answering a question at a press briefing on the issue of whether the United States supports direct communication between Pakistan and India in Kashmir, as it does on the Industry Water Treaty, the spokesperson for the State Department, Tammy Bruce, offered a measured response.
“We have Pakistan that will be here for a cracked, and I’m going to [be] Participate in this, so I look forward to it too, “said Bruce.
We have Pakistan who will be here for a bilat, and I will [be] participate in this, so I look forward
Tammy Bruce
The comments follow the renewed regional tensions and the past efforts of President Trump to mediate between India and Pakistan, including cashmere. Trump had previously proposed to organize talks between the two countries at a summit in Saudi Arabia.
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The meeting between the Deputy Prime Minister and the American Secretary of State will follow the appointment of Pakistan to President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize – recognizing what the government called Trump’s “extraordinary role” in the restoration of calm in South Asia.
On May 7, the Indian Air Force led an attack not caused against civilian targets in Pakistan and alleged that New Delhi had targeted “terrorist infrastructure”. The strikes killed several Pakistani civilians and hurt much more. Pakistan Air Force (PAF) rushed to counter the Indian air threat, killed six IAF hunting planes, including three French manufacturing gusts.
The strikes set an exchange of attacks between the two countries by fighter planes, missiles, drones and artillery that killed dozens to a ceasefire on May 10.
The ceasefire was announced for the first time by US President Donald Trump on social networks after Washington had interviews with both parties, but India has deferred Trump’s claims that this results from his intervention and threats to break up trade negotiations.
India’s position was that New Delhi and Islamabad must solve their problems directly and without external involvement.
