{"id":5660,"date":"2016-10-05T09:40:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T04:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2016-10-05T09:40:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T04:10:14","slug":"us-refrains-commenting-indias-surgical-strikes-claim-across-loc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5660","title":{"rendered":"US refrains from commenting on India&#8217;s surgical strikes claim across LoC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The US has refrained from commenting on the &#8220;surgical strikes&#8221; Indian army claimed to have carried out on aleged terror launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir last week while calling for calm and restraint.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to speak to specific reports of incidents along the border,&#8221; Elizabeth Trudeau, Director of the US State Department Press Office, said at the daily press briefing here on Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We urge calm and restraint on both sides,&#8221; she said, adding that the Indian and Pakistani armies were in touch with each other .<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We believe that that continued communication is vital to reduce these tensions.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In her briefing, Trudeau said that &#8220;conflicts or issues or rising tension are not contained to any specific region&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We are in favour of any reduction of tensions that both sides agree to in this particular instance,&#8221; she stated.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We have strong ties with both Pakistan and India, and we&#8217;ll engage on that basis.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Reiterating that the US position on Kashmir has not changed, Trudeau said, &#8220;I would remind you that we are having conversations with both (India and Pakistan) on the importance of reducing the tensions in the region.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has refrained from commenting on the &#8220;surgical strikes&#8221; Indian army claimed to have carried out on aleged terror launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir last week while calling for calm and restraint. &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to speak to specific reports of incidents along the border,&#8221; Elizabeth Trudeau, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}