JD Vance on India Pakistan Tension: Since the tension between India and Pakistan increased after the deadly cross-border attacks and military exchanges, US vice-president JD Vance said it would not directly interfere, even it would push both nuclear-skills neighbors towards de-asset.
Vance said in a television interview on Friday, “We are not going to join a war, which is none of our business fundamentally.” “Look, we collide at the nuclear powers at any time and make a big struggle,” he said.
It comes a day later India started attacks, Operation Sindoor, who was dubbed against “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan and Pakistan -occupied Kashmir, was killed by 26 people in Pahgam, Jammu and Kashmir on 22 April.
In vengeance, Pakistan tried to strike Many Indian military bases with missiles and drones – Jammu, Pathankot, Udampur and other places were targeted on Thursday night – but failed by Indian air defense systems. New Delhi later stated that it is “fully prepared to defend its sovereignty and ensure the safety of its people”.
Vance, whose family was on an official visit to India, accepted the seriousness of the situation, but implicated it as a regional dispute beyond Washington’s control. “We cannot control these countries,” he said. “Fundamentally, India has made a hold with Pakistan. Pakistan has responded to India. What we can do can try to encourage these people to escape slightly.”
He said that when Washington is looking at the conflict with anxiety, it does not intend to determine the conditions from both sides. “America cannot ask Indians to lay their arms. We cannot ask Pakistanis to lay their arms. And so we are going to continue to pursue this thing through diplomatic channels.”
“Our hope and our expectation is that it is not a spiral in a broad regional war or, God, an atomic struggle. But of course, we are worried about these things,” Vance said. “But I think the work of diplomacy, but also has a job of cooler chiefs in India and Pakistan, to ensure that it does not become a nuclear war. If this happens, it will definitely be destructive. We do not think that it is going to happen.”
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Meanwhile, State Secretary Marco Rubio has carried forward diplomatic efforts on Thursday, with India’s Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, speaking differently.
According to the State Department, Rubio urged the two leaders to pursue “immediate de-size”. In his call with Jaishankar, Rubio confirmed American condolences to the initiative attack and reiterated American support for India’s anti -terrorism efforts. He also encouraged direct dialogue between New Delhi and Islamabad, which emphasized the need for better communication.
In his conversation with Sharif, the state secretary pressured Pakistan to take “concrete steps” to end the support of terrorist groups working in the region.
