Srinagar: The United States has strongly condemned the Friday militant strikes in Kashmir ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled poll rally which claimed 21 lives including eight troopers, three policemen and two civilians. The six Fidayeen attackers were also killed by forces.
According to reports, the US State Department said: “The United States remains firmly committed to working in close partnership with India to defeat terrorism in all its forms,” the state department in a statement issued on Friday evening. “Our hearts go out to the families of those affected by this deplorable attack,” it said.
The state department, according to reports, expressed its concern about any violence in Kashmir adding that its policies on it have not changed.
“We are concerned about any violence in Kashmir. Our policy on Kashmir hasn’t changed. We still believe that the pace and the scope and character of India and Pakistan’s dialogue on Kashmir is for those two countries to determine,” state department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf, was quoted as having said.
“Our embassies in both places have raised these types of incidents with their respective host governments and certainly encouraged both to continue working together on the issue,” the spokesperson reportedly said.
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