The foreign minister was speaking at the CNN-News18 Townhall organised on SaturdayExternal Affair Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Saturday said, a lot of India's problems with Pakistan are directly attributable to the support that the United States gave to Pakistan. Earlier, in May, Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was on a visit to the US at the invitation of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The statement was issued in response to confusion following Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari's "strong pitch for re-engaging with New Delhi." On AfghanistanSpeaking on Afghanistan, Jaishankar said that "India has a historical relation with Afghanistan." But following the Taliban takeover of the country last year, the foreign minister said the country is bound to slide.

Source: CNN June 19, 2022 02:12 UTC