NEW YORK: India’s Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid almost wrecked the Nawaz-Manmohan talks on Sunday when he blamed Pakistan’s ISI and the army for trying to undermine Sharif’s efforts to talk to India.
Khurshid told VOA on Saturday that Sharif must find a way to keep Pakistan’s military and ISI under control.Mentioning the recent violence, the foreign minister questioned how the recent attacks could have taken place without support from the ISI, adding that if Pakistan could not control “non-state actors” on its territory it should seek India’s help.
Khurshid said: “We expect them to handle non-state actors if they are non-state actors.”Khurshid welcomed the mention of a “new beginning” in India-Pakistan relations by the newly elected Pakistani prime minister but said that based on its past experiences, India needed to “trust but verify” that Pakistan is serious about peace.
Referring to recent attacks in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 10 people he said, “We’ve been told that all the (Pakistani) government agencies are on the same page, but if they were, the things that are happening would not be happening.”Khurshid defended Manmohan Singh’s stinging criticism of Pakistan on Saturday at the UN.
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