{"id":64699,"date":"2019-07-23T15:10:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=64699"},"modified":"2019-07-23T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T11:02:46","slug":"donald-trumps-kashmir-remark-helps-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/special-tv-shows\/apn-mudda-show\/donald-trumps-kashmir-remark-helps-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTrump\u2019s Kashmir remark helps Pak\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Panelists observe that Trump\u2019s gaffe is typical of his style of functioning<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration interlocutors moved for a quick damage-control after India denied asking for President Donald Trump\u2019s intervention on the Kashmir issue. Will this embarrassing gaffe by Trump affect Indo-US relations?\u00a0<em>APN<\/em>\u2019s popular debate\u00a0<em>Mudda<\/em>\u00a0discussed the issue.\u00a0Anchorperson Akshay posed the questions to panelists including \u00a0BJP\u2019s Abhinav Jain, Kashmir expert Romesh Raina, political expert Rishi Mishra, defence expert (retd) Wing Commander Prafful Bakshi, former bureaucrat \u00a0SK Verma and\u00a0<em>APN<\/em>\u00a0consultant Govind Pant Raju.<\/p>\n<p>Verma said: \u201dThis is a most surprising statement by Trump. Requests are of two types\u2014written or casual, oral. But I suspect that Trump has not really said it just like that. There must have been some kind of talk like this by Modi to Trump. There is no smoke without fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akshay said that neither the US media nor the US ministry officials have supported this statement by Trump. To this, Verma said: \u201cIndia should send out a written statement on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raina said: \u201cKashmir is a part of India. It is PoK that is controversial. Full text of the statement means that now Pakistan is cooperating with America. Why is this so? US wants to withdraw from Afghanistan and needs Pakistan\u2019s help for this. The affect of Trump\u2019s statement can act as a boost to militancy in the Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mishra said: \u201cThe US media is having a good laugh over Trump\u2019s statement. It is an immature remark, just the way Trump is portrayed in the media. India has always stood for bilateral talks on Kashmir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bakshi \u00a0\u00a0said: \u201cThis statement reflects Trump\u2019s inner desire.\u00a0 Trump cannot afford its Afghanistan plan to go haywire.\u00a0 But India has always made it clear that it is only for bilateral talks on Kashmir. Vested interests want the Kashmir issue to flare up like this. Some people are gleeful that Modi has supposedly made a faux pas, so the PM should make it all very clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mishra said: \u201cWe should register a strong protest with the US Embassy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jain said: \u201cIt is the US that needs to make things clear. Even the US media does not believe Trump. Parties should remain united today and ask for clarification from US, and not train guns on Modi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mishra said: \u201cThere might have been a language problem between Modi and Trump, and Modi might have been misunderstood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bakshi \u00a0\u00a0said: \u201cNo need for Modi to give out any clarification. India\u2019s stature is too high to react on such an immature statement by Trump. Modi should ignore the remark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Verma said: \u201cIn today\u2019s scenario, we are moving on as an ally of the US. In South East Asia, US trusts India. I believe that till Trump himself does not clarify, speculation on his remark shall remain rife. Or Modi should deny this statement clearly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raina said: \u201cIt is a deliberate statement made to that country\u2019s PM to who such statements would matter a lot. US needs Pak\u2019s help, and Pak might have expected some kind of statement in its favour like this.\u00a0 Pakistan has a strong lobby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raju said: \u201cI don\u2019t think this remark should be given importance. The opposition might want to make this a\u00a0<em>mudda.<\/em>\u00a0Our PM does not need to send out any clarification on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mishra said:\u201dWhite House too is not giving importance to this, US media has made fun of this, US legislators have brushed off this statement. US foreign ministry itself has diluted this statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jain said:\u201dDid we take anyone\u2019s help before going in for surgical strikes? Today, India needs no one\u2019s help in its internal matters. India\u2019s policy is clear, especially its foreign policy. Pak is uncomfortable of India\u2019s growing clout.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panelists observe that Trump\u2019s gaffe is typical of his style of functioning The Trump administration interlocutors moved for a quick damage-control after India denied asking for President Donald Trump\u2019s intervention on the Kashmir issue. Will this embarrassing gaffe by Trump affect Indo-US relations?\u00a0APN\u2019s popular debate\u00a0Mudda\u00a0discussed the issue.\u00a0Anchorperson Akshay posed the questions to panelists including \u00a0BJP\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":64701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[15],"tags":[1764,927,21],"yst_prominent_words":[49571,31660,36007,25484,3704,4106,31285,4251,9535,3879,4016,3715,57661,8887,8213,75932,20998,23231,75933,4635],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2019\/07\/23162958\/Mudda-23.7.19.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64699"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=64699"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=64699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->