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William Milam, who served in Islamabad from 1998 to 2001, identified India and Kashmir as one of the issues, which the new US administration would focus on while trying to find a solution to Pakistan.
"Everything that Pakistan does, at least in foreign affairs and security issues, is viewed through the lens of India, which it views as its eternally hostile neighbour," Milam said, adding that the US can't do much at least on the Kashmir issue due to India's position on it.
"There's no good way we can do this. We certainly cannot be seen to meddle or to even mediate on the issues, particularly the Kashmir issue. But we really have to work on putting this back together," Milam said testifying before the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Giving his observations on the new administration's Pakistan policy, Milam said it is clear to him that the Obama administration is seeing and sees Pakistan through a slightly different lens than the previous administrations.
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meddle means getting involved without asking to do so, but India will never ask any country to get involved insisting that Kashmir is an internal matter. This argument does not hold water, Kashmir is a big problem whether wholly internal or part ly external is for the friends of India who are sincere in solving the problem to sort out. Even assuming that it is internal, is it not in the interest of both India and Pakistan to find an amicable solution to the problem and if America has no private axe to grind except to see peace in South Asia, what is wrong in their meddling. After all it was India in the first instance which took the case to the UNO in 1948 and then to Tashkent allowing Russians to meddle in our internal affairs. The US having an extraordinary friendship with both India and Pakistan is the right country and the only country capable of effectively meddling in the Kashmir issue or any world issue and solve it and save the blood shedding of the innocent on all sides.
not necessary the US should meddle but being a respected international power it can be an honest broker and try to solve the 62 year old devastating and brutal infighting between two neighbours who had been after all brothers, they are linguistically, ethnically and culturally same and unless the problem of Kashmir is solved, the terrorist problems, the insurgency and the communal problems between India and Pakistan are not going to end. Did not Britain and Germany fight the most expensive and dirty war in the 1940s and within twenty years become the best friends having excellent trade relations and help develop the economy of Europe to the envy of Americans? What India and Pakistan need is to strike a compromise and give up their stubbornness and highly developed ego as we find between close relatives in the Indian sub-continent not based on substance but based on silly issues like matrimonial relations between cousins. This represents their thinking in international relations too