US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called India and Pakistan on Thursday to an “immediate de -escalation”, and urged Islamabad to stop “any support for terrorist groups”.
During an appeal with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the head of American diplomacy “insisted on the need for immediate de-escalation,” said spokesperson for the State Department, Tammy Bruce. “He expressed the support of the United States to direct dialogue between India and Pakistan and encouraged the continuation of efforts to improve communications,” added the spokesperson.
During his call with Shehbaz Sharif, Marco Rubio “reiterated his calls to Pakistan to take concrete measures in order to put an end to any support for terrorist groups”. He also “expressed his sadness for losses of civil life in the current conflict”.
US President Donald Trump called India and Pakistan on Wednesday to end the “now” hostilities, while the two nuclear powers have been engaged in their most serious military confrontation for two decades.
India and Pakistan accused each other on Thursday of having conducted drone attacks. The two neighboring countries were on the war in the attack since the attack which killed 26 people in Pahalgam, a tourist town of the Indian cashmere, and was not claimed. India has attributed it to a jihadist group based in Pakistan, Lashkar-E-Taiba (Let), and accused its neighbor.
