Global Courant
WASHINGTON — Pakistan on Friday criticized the United States and India after President Joe Biden met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House and both leaders called on Pakistan to ensure its territory is not used as a base for militant attacks.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry said a joint US-India statement was “unfounded, one-sided and misleading”.
The reference to Islamabad was against diplomatic standards.
The ministry added that it was surprised by the joint statement and said it had “close counter-terrorism cooperation” with the US.
Relations between India and Pakistan have been fraught for years.
Since independence from Britain in 1947, India and Pakistan have fought three wars, two of them over the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir in the Himalayas, both of which they fully claim but partly rule.
The joint US-India statement said: “They (Mr Biden and Mr Modi) strongly condemned cross-border terrorism, the use of terrorist proxies and called on Pakistan to take immediate action to ensure that no area under its control is used for launching terrorist attacks. to attack.”
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said India used the extremism allegations against Islamabad to deviate from the situation in Kashmir and India’s treatment of minorities.
