US Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered American help to start “constructive talks” to end the conflict between India and Pakistan, while the two states were exchanging heavy missile fires on Saturday, which aroused wider worries about the wider military climbing.
Rubio has been engaged in back and forth diplomacy between the two countries in recent days, calling for de-escalation while India and Pakistan have been engaged in daily clashes since Wednesday.
The best diplomat in the United States “continued to urge the two parties to find ways to defuse and offered American help to start constructive talks to avoid future conflicts,” the spokesman for the State Department, Tammy Bruce said on Saturday.
The fighting between India and Pakistan began on Wednesday after the Indian missiles struck nine sites in Pakistan, killing 31 people and triggering a cycle of tat-tray attacks between the two countries. India said Wednesday’s missile strikes were in retaliation for a cashmere attack administered by the Indians at the end of April, who saw militants killing 25 Hindu tourists and a guide, which India blamed in Pakistan.
The clashes culminated on Saturday, while the two countries launched missile strikes deeply in the territories of the other, using long -range weapons, drone swarms and fighter planes.
Indian and Pakistani officials said they did not want to see more climbing. During a press briefing on Saturday, the Indian military officers said: “The Indian armed forces reiterated their commitment to non-escalating, provided that the Pakistani part of the reciprocal.”
Pakistani Minister Khawaja Asif said that he had no “problem to defuse”, that he did not trust India’s statements.
There was a burst of international diplomacy to trigger conflicts, because despite India and Pakistan declaring that they do not want climbing, there was a constant increase in intensity during the clashes.
The deepening of hostilities has raised a widespread international concern, the two nuclear powers closer to the war that they have not been for decades.
American efforts to try to mediate between India and Pakistan were led by Rubio, who was in regular contact with the Pakistani Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, and the Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, since the attack on cashmere.
India has been a key American ally in the region in recent years, considered a counter -influence of China – a political concern superior to the Trump administration. The United States, in turn, is the largest trading partner in India, and Reuters reports that it has offered preferential trading terms to Americans to guarantee a stronger partnership with its ally.
Nevertheless, the United States previously seemed reluctant to get involved in the India-Pakistan row, with US President Donald Trump, calling for Tit-for-Tat “a shame” earlier in the week. Vice-president JD Vance said that an Indian-Pakistani war would be “fundamentally not from our business and had nothing to do with America’s ability to control it”.
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The United States does not currently have an ambassador to India or Pakistan because the Trump administration has not yet provided on vacant posts.
Other countries, such as China and Saudi Arabia, intervened to try to defuse the situation. China, which provides a large part of Pakistan’s military equipment, also said that it would be willing to “play a constructive role” to find a solution to fights.
The Minister of Pakistan Defense said on Saturday that Saudi Arabia played a key role of interlocutor and that the Saudi Foreign Minister had sent a representative to Pakistan.
British Foreign Minister David Lammy joined the G7 ministers to request calm, the G7 publishing a declaration on Saturday urging the “maximum restraint” of India and Pakistan.
“We call for immediate de -escalation and encourage the two countries to initiate direct dialogue towards a peaceful result,” the statement said.
