U.S. Does Not Want To Get Involved or Mediate in Kashmir Issue: Experts

Washington: The US does not want to play the role of a mediator in resolving the Kashmir issue and there is a very strong consensus here that it is not an area where the country wants to wade in deeply, an American expert has said.

“I think that there’s a very strong and probably durable consensus in Washington that Kashmir is not an area where the US wants to wade in deeply,” Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a US think-tank, said.

“The US is certainly willing to help with any kind of initiative that India and Pakistan would pursue on their own, but it doesn’t want to pursue a role as a mediator, it doesn’t want to make itself a third-party to any kind of discussion,” Markey, author of the new book ‘No Exit From Pakistan: America’s Tortured Relationship with Islamabad’, said. Markey, responding to a question on the statement made by Sharif at a Washington event in which he sought US role in resolving the Kashmir dispute, said, “In answer to….Is it constructive for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to raise this in Washington, my short answer would be, no, I don’t think it’s especially constructive.” The expert also cautioned the Pakistani leadership against believing that the US would side with it or supports its position on Kashmir, if their desire of American help in this regard is fulfilled.

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