Pakistan urges US to help ease Kashmir tension, inject sanity on India side

Pakistan's always strained relations with its India are being put to a new test after Narendra Modi-led government revoked the special status of Jammu & Kashmir

Pakistan called on the Trump administration to do more to help ease tensions after India revoked autonomy in the disputed Muslim-majority state of Kashmir, a decision that has inflamed tensions between the two Asian powers.

“The US could do and the US must do more to help defuse this situation and to perhaps inject some more sanity on the Indian side," Asad Khan, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, said in an interview on Friday in Washington with Bloomberg News editors and reporters. “We would expect that from all our friends. It really is a question of principle."

Pakistan’s always strained