Top US senator meets Indian Kashmir officials

[angeldemon_007]

SRINAGAR, India — US senator John McCain held discussions "on various important issues" with India's top representative in Kashmir and senior Indian army officials on Tuesday, the government said.
"During their wide-ranging discussions lasting for about two hours, Senator McCain and the Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra exchanged views on various important issues of mutual interest," a statement from the government read.
It said the chief of the Indian army's northern division, of which Kashmir is an important part, and the army chief of the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley were also present during the discussions.
Full details of the discussions were not made available to the media.
The senior Republican, who lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 White House race, was accompanied by two foreign policy advisers and diplomats from the US embassy in New Delhi.
The senator later met Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
The meetings took place in Indian Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar, once the hub of an urban insurgency.
US envoys and top ranking diplomats have regularly visited the state since the start of an insurgency against Indian rule in 1989 which has left nearly 40,000 people dead by official count, although rights groups put the toll at twice as high.
India accuses Pakistan of arming and funding the militants, a charge denied by Islamabad. US has been urging Pakistan to act against Kashmiri militants, who want Kashmir to merge with Pakistan or make it an independent state.

AFP: Top US senator meets Indian Kashmir officials

 

[Quick MIK]

A slap on the face of so called separitists who are claiming as the sole representatives of people of j&k.Meeting the elected leaders of j&k by foreign dignitaries is a welcome step.

 

[angeldemon_007]

They are all a**hole. If they would have tried something like this in some other country they would have thrown inside the jail. The best step taken by US was the recent bust of ISI's Kashmiri puppet in US.

 

[Mo12]

Thank You USA, important step for them recognising Kashmir is with India.

 

[Maritimer]

The US policy on Kashmir is definitely showing a shift in India's favour. This is a blow to the separatists, who are fighting a losing battle. Militancy failed in the mid-1990s, war failed in 1999, cross-border infiltration stopped after 9/11, political fight failed after a fair election in 2008, communal card failed after a peaceful Khir Bhawani/Amarnath yatra this year, now diplomacy has failed after Fai's arrest and US tilt. What is left now, more stone throwing??

 

[Tshering22]

Why did we allow them to meet again? But it seems to be good right now.

 

[Hobo1]

Probably trying to tell the separatist than India is their best bet.

 

[pmukherjee]

SRINAGAR, India — US senator John McCain held discussions "on various important issues" with India's top representative in Kashmir and senior Indian army officials on Tuesday, the government said.
"During their wide-ranging discussions lasting for about two hours, Senator McCain and the Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra exchanged views on various important issues of mutual interest," a statement from the government read.
It said the chief of the Indian army's northern division, of which Kashmir is an important part, and the army chief of the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley were also present during the discussions.
Full details of the discussions were not made available to the media.
The senior Republican, who lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 White House race, was accompanied by two foreign policy advisers and diplomats from the US embassy in New Delhi.
The senator later met Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
The meetings took place in Indian Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar, once the hub of an urban insurgency.
US envoys and top ranking diplomats have regularly visited the state since the start of an insurgency against Indian rule in 1989 which has left nearly 40,000 people dead by official count, although rights groups put the toll at twice as high.
India accuses Pakistan of arming and funding the militants, a charge denied by Islamabad. US has been urging Pakistan to act against Kashmiri militants, who want Kashmir to merge with Pakistan or make it an independent state.

AFP: Top US senator meets Indian Kashmir officials

Who is this illiterate and ignorant reporter who wrote this? It is not the Indian Army's Northern Division. It is the Northern Command which consists of a number of Corps and each of those Corps comprise of a number of Divisions. When are these so called reporters of India's main stream media going to learn the A, B or C of what they so authoritatively comment upon?

Why has Senator (John J Rambo) McCain been accorded the privilege to interview and meet with the administration in J & K? Will the US permit an Indian legislator to visit Alaska and meet with people there to find out what the hell happened to the indigenous Inuits and Tlingits? Will China permit McCain to visit Tibet or Xinjiang?