Times of Islamabad

India seems unhappy and surprised with Pakistani Ambassador lobbying with Jewish American group in US Congress

India seems unhappy and surprised with Pakistani Ambassador lobbying with Jewish American group in US Congress

ISLAMABAD – India seems unhappy with the Pakistan’s effort for enhancingrelationship with the United States.

Recently, a powerful Jewish American group’s chairman supported Pakistan’sposition on closer defence cooperation, sales of armaments as it alsorecognised Pakistan’s great sacrifices in the war on terror.

This happened after Ali Jehangir Siddiqui met this group and advocated forPakistan’s success in fighting terror and asked for recognising Pakistan’ssacrifices in war against terror.

The Indian newspaper Economic Times, published an article on Sept 4, 2018,interestingly timed the day before the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeoand Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dunford arrived inPakistan for meetings with the Pakistani government before going to NewDelhi.

Titled ‘Why is the President of a Jewish group defending Pakistani’ thearticle was scathing in its criticism on Pakistan writing “…while it(Pakistan) has no real well-wishers left in the US Congress or thePentagon, and these days even the State Department struggles mightily towhitewash its crimes.”

“US Secretary of State Pompeo is expected to deliver, what the deeplyconcerned Indian newspaper critically described as “a tough message toPakistan during his brief stopover (to Pakistan) before arriving in Indialater in the day.”