Responding to Indian distant places minister S Jaishankar’s criticism in opposition to the US providing a multimillion-greenback security equipment to Pakistan, the Biden administration defended its probability, announcing Washington doesn’t behold its ties with Unusual Delhi and Islamabad “in the case of 1 but every other”.
“We produce no longer behold our relationship with Pakistan… our relationship with India… in the case of 1 but every other… each partners of ours with varied components of emphasis…,” verbalize department spokesperson Ned Fee suggested reporters.
“We be taught about to each as partners, because we produce be pleased in so much of cases shared values. We produce be pleased in so much of cases shared interests. And the relationship we be pleased now got with India stands on its be pleased. The relationship we be pleased now got with Pakistan stands on its be pleased,” he said.
Jaishankar on Sunday lashed out at US for providing a $450 million equipment to Pakistan for technical and logistics products and services for educate-on improve of F-16 fighter jet fleets.
The F-16 jets had been first provided by the US to Pakistan as a reward for its aid within the most major Afghan war.
The probability to give protection power abet to Pakistan incensed India because the F-16 change into once weak in opposition to Indian warplanes following the 2019 Balakot air strikes— a bombing raid done by Indian Air Power in Pakistan-occupied territory Balakot in opposition to terrorist coaching camps.
Talking at a community match in Washington, DC, Jaishankar referred to an argument made by the US that the F-16 sustenance equipment is to war terrorism.
“All americans knows where and in opposition to whom F-16 fighter jets are weak. You are no longer fooling any one by announcing these items.”
“Very in fact, it is a relationship that has ended up serving neither Pakistan nor serving American interests wisely… for the US to mirror what the merits of the relationship [are] and what they gain by maintaining it kind of persevering with,” Jaishankar had said.
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