India’s stealth lobbying against Holbrooke’s brief: Kashmir taken out of Holbrooke’s book Via Dawn.com
Another Diplomatic Victory for India. Yes our deft diplomacy is still working. Our diplomats and leader’s did manage to take out Kashmir agenda from the books of recently appointed President Barack Obama’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrook.
By winning the heart of the new US administration and making sure that Obama administration should keep the Kashmir dispute out of the portfolio of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke shows our deft diplomacy. India is a big country and our government did right thing by conveying this message to Obama administration we are not ready for any concession. We won’t let militancy win and democracy lose. Secondly Appointment of Mr. Richard Holbrooke whole purpose of Holbrook is to solve the Taliban and Al Qaeda issue with Pakistan and nothing to do with Kashmir. Good job done by our diplomats.
WASHINGTON, Jan 30: On India’s request, the US administration has kept the Kashmir dispute out of the portfolio of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke who was appointed President Barack Obama’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan last week. “Eliminating … Kashmir from his job description … is seen as a significant diplomatic concession to India that reflects increasingly warm ties between the country and the United States,” the Washington Post noted in a report. At a news briefing earlier this week, US State Department spokesman Robert A. Wood said Kashmir was not part of Mr Holbrooke’s mandate. “His mandate is to go out and try to help bring stability to Afghanistan, working closely with Pakistan,” he said. “India has some very clear views as to what it wants to do vis-à-vis dealing with the Kashmir issue, as well as the Pakistanis.” When asked whether Mr Holbrooke would play a role if there were heightened tensions again over the Mumbai attacks, Mr Wood said: “I don’t want to speculate in terms of what he may or may not do, but his brief is focussed solely on, as I said, Afghanistan-Pakistan.”
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