New Delhi stands ground on Kashmir in first top-level meet with US

In the meantime, the US has clarified that its position on Kashmir hasn't changed and it continued to view it as a bilateral issue

In the first meeting since Article 370 was abrogated in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), India has told the US that the move was a policy decision in J&K state, inherently constituting an internal matter. In his meeting with US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan on Friday in New Delhi, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that cross-border terrorism originating from Pakistan should be the main focus of multilateral efforts, sources said.

They said that the meeting saw India brief the US side on the nature of the 370 move and what India aims to achieve from it through the