US hopes Pakistan cooperates with India against terrorists: Vance on Pahalgam attack
The US has potentially linked Pakistan to terrorism in India with Vice President JD Vance saying Washington hopes Pakistan would cooperate with India to hunt down and bring to justice terrorists “sometimes operating from its territory"
Vance’s remarks were made on the ‘Special Report with Bret Baier’ show on Thursday.
When asked to comment on the tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, Vance said Washington is in touch with both the countries.
“Our hope is that India responds to this terrorist attack in a way that does not lead to a broader regional conflict. And we hope that Pakistan to the extent that they are responsible cooperate with India to hunt down terrorists, sometimes operating in their territory. That is how we hope it unfolds. We are obviously in close contact with India and Pakistan," Vance said a day after India conveyed to the US that it wanted the perpetrators, planners and backers brought to justice.
On Thursday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar made this clear to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a call.
Later in the day, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh named Pakistan in the telephonic talks with his US counterpart Pete Hegseth and said Pakistan is a rogue state fuelling global terrorism and the world could no longer turn a blind eye to it.
This is the line India took at the UN earlier this week where it recorded the recent confession by Pakistan defence minister that Pakistan had financed terror networks.
The US had earlier urged both India and Pakistan to de-escalate.
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