*NEW YORK: **Indian move on Occupied Kashmir gives a blow to the UnitedStates administration as well over the Afghanistan peace process. *
*India’s move to revoke special status of the occupied Kashmir threatens tocomplicate US efforts to forge a peace deal with the Taliban inAfghanistan, says The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)link.*
The newspaper also said Prime Minister Imran Khan’s “successful” visit toWashington, during which President Donald Trump offered to mediate thedecades-old dispute, might have factored in Indian Prime Minister NarendraModi’s Kashmir move.
“The spike in tensions between Pakistan and India over the change ofKashmir’s status comes as Taliban peace talks appear to have reached acritical final stage,” WSJ, a major US financial newspaper said.
The New York Timeslink, aleading American newspaper, on Wednesday, had also opposed the Indiangovernment’s move to scrap occupied Kashmir of its special statusguaranteed in its constitution.
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In an editorial, The New York Times called New Delhi’s move as dangerousand wrong.
It may be noted that the government of India has urged Pakistan to ‘review’its unilateral move to downgrade ties and suspend trade with New Dehlifollowing its illegal annexation of occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
A press release issued by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs onThursday read that New Dehli “regrets the steps announced by Pakistanyesterday and would urge that country to review them so that normalchannels for diplomatic communications are preserved.”
