{"id":309824,"date":"2019-02-27T05:11:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T05:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309824"},"modified":"2019-02-27T05:11:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T05:11:48","slug":"us-asks-pakistan-to-take-meaningful-action-against-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-asks-pakistan-to-take-meaningful-action-against-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"US asks Pakistan to take &#8216;meaningful action&#8217; against terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302262 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pompeo-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/pompeo-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/pompeo-520x420.jpg 520w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/pompeo.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The US on Wednesday asked Pakistan to take &#8220;meaningful action&#8221; against terrorist groups a day after India targeted a major terror training camp across the Line of Control (LoC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moreover, the Donald Trump administration called for India and Pakistan to &#8220;exercise restraint&#8221; amid heightened tension between the two nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke separately with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I encouraged both ministers to prioritise direct communication and avoid further military activity,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I also expressed to both ministers that we encourage India and Pakistan to exercise restraint, and avoid escalation at any cost,\u201d Pompeo added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pompeo said that in talks with Qureshi, he stressed on avoiding military action, and the urgency of Pakistan taking meaningful action against terrorist groups operating on its soil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India on Tuesday bombed and destroyed JeM&#8217;s biggest training camp in Balakot in Pakistan killing a &#8220;very large number&#8221; of terrorists, trainers and senior commanders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, who is in China for a meeting with the foreign ministers of Russia and China, defended the air strikes across the LoC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a military operation. No military installation was targeted. The objective was to act against terrorist infrastructure of JeM,\u201d Swaraj said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US on Wednesday asked Pakistan to take &#8220;meaningful action&#8221; against terrorist groups a day after India targeted a major terror training camp across the Line of Control (LoC). Moreover, the Donald Trump administration called for India and Pakistan to &#8220;exercise restraint&#8221; amid heightened tension between the two nations. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":302262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[574,4751,48,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309825,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309824\/revisions\/309825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}