'You are not fooling anyone...' Jaishankar responds to US F-16 bundle for Pak | Newest News India

Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has raised questions over the "deserves" of the US-Pakistan relationship and stated that Washington's ties with Islamabad haven't served the "American curiosity".

"It is a relationship that has neither ended up serving Pakistan effectively nor serving the American pursuits," Jaishankar stated at an occasion organized by the Indian American neighborhood in Washington on Sunday.

The remarks have been made when the Indian minister was questioned by the viewers on US motion on F-16 fighter jets with Pakistan. Simply weeks in the past, for the primary time since 2018, US State Division accepted a International Army Sale (FMS) to the Authorities of Pakistan for the sustainability of the Pakistan Air Drive F-16 fleet and gear at the price of USD 450 million.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh promptly conveyed to US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin India's considerations over Washington's determination to supply a sustenance bundle for Pakistan's F-16 fleet.

"It is actually for the US right this moment to replicate on the deserves of this relationship and what they get by it," Jaishankar asserted.

"For somebody to say I'm doing this as a result of it's all counter-terrorism content material and so when you find yourself speaking of an plane like a functionality of an F-16 the place all people is aware of, the place they're deployed and their use. You aren't fooling anyone by saying these items," Jaishankar famous.

"If I have been to talk to an American policy-maker, I'd actually make the case (that) look what you might be doing," Jaishankar strongly asserted.

Jaishankar on Saturday concluded the high-level United Nations Normal Meeting debate in New York and is scheduled to spend the following three days in Washington.

The minister is scheduled to fulfill together with his American counterpart Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and different prime officers of the Biden administration.