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

Sharif, in his address to the US Institute of Peace had said, “With its growing influence in India, the US now has the capacity to do more, to help the two sides resolve their core disputes, including Kashmir, and in promoting a culture of cooperation,” ”I do think that it’s politically expedient, that is, it’s important for him to show his countrymen that Kashmir has not disappeared from the agenda and that he will raise it in international fora, including with the US,” Markey said, giving an explanation for Sharif’s raising Kashmir issue time and again despite that the US’ refusal to his wish. “I think that the Prime Minister would be wrong to think that if the US were to engage in that role, that he would have a strong American partner. That is, I think historically Pakistanis have seen the Americans have been more or less on their side on the Kashmir issue, or have believed that,” Markey said. ”I think in recent years, the US sees this really not as an issue where it would take Pakistan’s side, but as an issue where it would prefer that India and Pakistan resolve it on their own. And that’s not going to change, regardless of what Nawaz Sharif suggests to the White House,” he said. Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan and Pakistan Cameron Munter said the US can at the most encourage the peace initiative between the two countries, but Kashmir is purely a bilateral issue.

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