He was very appreciated in the conversation with Prime Minister Modi and tried to seriously understand India’s attitude on many issues. In the side press conference with Modi, it was said to fight terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda, ISIS, Jam, Lashkar with India. Trump offered help in the India-China dispute, but India rejected the role of third party as before. Pakistan got angry after seeing its name in the statement. The US offered India to give its fifth generation fighter jet F-35. Trump announced that India would take more oil, gas and military equipment from the US, including F-35, to reduce trade deficit.
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India will be part of the specific group of countries that are authority to buy jets. These countries include NATO members, Japan and Israel. Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesman Shafkat Ali Khan said in his address to the media that such steps increase military imbalance in the area and weaken strategic stability. They are not helpful in achieving the purpose of sustainable peace in South Asia. He called upon international partners to adopt overall and objective approach on issues of peace and safety in South Asia and to avoid unilateral stance from ground realities. The trump-Modi meeting was shocked to Pakistan to such an extent that the country announced the foreign minister Ishaq Dar’s visit to New York next week. While Dar was already to attend a high-level meeting of the United Nations Security Council, the Foreign Office said that Pakistan would also raise its concerns regarding Indo-US joint statement.
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Pakistan in the US-India joint statement objected to the reference to the alleged spread of terrorism from its land and termed it unilateral, misleading and contrary to diplomatic norms. Foreign Office spokesman Shafkat Ali Khan also expressed concern over the sale of arms to India by the US and said that this would increase military imbalance in the region. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump called upon Pakistan to expedite their efforts to bring the conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks into the dock of justice. Trump has announced the approval to extradite India to India, the main conspirator of this brutal attack. Khan said in a weekly press conference that Pakistan is surprised that this reference has been added to the joint statement despite Pakistan’s anti-terrorist cooperation with the US. He said, “We consider Pakistan-specific reference to unilateral, misleading and diplomatic norms in the Indo-US joint statement of 13 February 2025.
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