The US has "no role" in the resolution of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan despite Islamabad seeking third party intervention by Washington, a top American South Asia expert has said.
Alyssa Ayres, a senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, said that the US would like New Delhi and Islamabad to resolve the issue through dialogue but understands challenges of that scenario given the presence of terror outfits on Pakistani soil.
Pakistani leaders have repeatedly sought the US intervention in resolving the Kashmir dispute, but India had said that there was no room for third party mediation.
Delivering the 4th New India Lecture on "India's Role on World Stage", organised by the Consulate General of India here in partnership with the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), she said "There is no role for the US (in settling India-Pakistan disputes)."
Ayres said that India and Pakistan should be talking more but it is hard to do that when one country feels that the other is not acting in good faith and is at best allowing terrorists to regroup and at worst harbouring them?
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