{"id":5797,"date":"2016-10-07T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T08:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2016-10-07T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T08:25:10","slug":"us-wants-india-pakistan-resolve-kashmir-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5797","title":{"rendered":"US wants India, Pakistan to resolve Kashmir issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Washington:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Amid the current tensions between India and Pakistan, the US has called on India and Pakistan to resolve Kashmir dispute through a meaningful dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;On the Kashmir issue, our position has not changed. We want this to be worked out between both sides, the issue of Kashmir,&#8221; US State Department spokesperson John Kirby said in the daily press briefing here on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;And generally, generally speaking, I mean, we obviously want to see the tensions that exist right now be brought down and for dialogue to take its place &#8212; meaningful dialogue to try to address these issues bilaterally between the countries,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The State Department&#8217;s comments came as India-Pakistan relations dipped to a new low in recent times with cross-border terror attacks and the Indian Army&#8217;s surgical strikes at terror &#8220;launch pads&#8221; across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington:\u00a0Amid the current tensions between India and Pakistan, the US has called on India and Pakistan to resolve Kashmir dispute through a meaningful dialogue. &#8220;&#8230;On the Kashmir issue, our position has not changed. We want this to be worked out between both sides, the issue of Kashmir,&#8221; US State Department spokesperson John Kirby said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5797","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\/5797","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=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/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=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}