US trying to intervene in Kashmir in a ‘tricky way’: CPI

A senior CPI leader said the US was trying to intervene in a 'tricky way' in Kashmir.

A senior CPI leader said the US was trying to intervene in a ‘tricky way’ in Kashmir by offering to play any role India and Pakistan would like on resolving the issue.

“They are trying to intervene in the Kashmir issue in a tricky way. It is a very tricky type of statement,” CPI Deputy General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said,reacting to US President Barack Obama’s statement after talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

“If the US was sincerely interested in containing tensions between India and Pakistan,they would

have warned Pakistan,stopped arms supply and advised them to settle the issue through negotiations,” Reddy said.

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Noting that Kashmir was a long-standing dispute,Obama told a joint press conference here with Singh that it was in the interest of India and Pakistan to reduce tensions between them.

Accusing the US of selling arms to both India and Pakistan,Reddy said more tensions between the two nations would help America to sell more weapons.

The Left party leader said Obama was not ready to liberalise ban on the outsourcing while making efforts to create jobs in the US by exporting Boeing aircraft,nuclear reactors and military equipment to India.

“Outsourcing job is not done out of love or charity. It is a question of availability of cheap labour. Indian companies are paying their workers only 10 pc to 20 pc remuneration when compared to their US counterparts,” Reddy said.

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The Communist leader said the US is coming closer to India as their credibility in the international political arena was getting reduced and the present Indian leadership was more accessible to them,”unlike previous generation of the nationalist leaders.”

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