WASHINGTON: According to Pakistani Ambassador to the US Masood Khan, India’s advancement will gain greater legitimacy if they maintain cordial ties with their neighbors.
The envoy counseled the neighboring country to make investments in economic connectivity, saying, “India’s preference should be neighbourhood first and it should be peaceful neighbourhood.”
During an interview with Tim Horgan of the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire for the podcast “Global in the Granite State,” Ambassador Khan stated these things.
The remarks made by the highest The appointment of a Pakistani envoy to the US coincided with India’s preparations for forming a government following the announcement of election results in which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to secure the necessary majority in the Lok Sabha.
However, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) selected Narendra Modi to serve as prime minister for a third term in a row.
“S. Asian states should have balanced ties with the United States.”
Masood Khan, meantime, has emphasized that the US should keep a strategic balance in its dealings with the nations of South Asia.
Restoring equilibrium would improve the region’s peace and security, he said, pointing out that the US was unduly aligned with India, which went against the conventional strategy of keeping strategic balance in relations with South Asian nations.
Nonetheless, he pointed out that Pakistan had its own area of independence from the US, and “we want to use up that space in the economic and defense realms.”
