{"id":77060,"date":"2025-06-11T18:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=77060"},"modified":"2025-06-11T18:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:35:26","slug":"top-us-general-stresses-importance-of-relations-with-both-india-and-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/top-us-general-stresses-importance-of-relations-with-both-india-and-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Top US General stresses importance of relations with both India and Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The head of the US Central Command (CENTCOM),<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/trump-can-resolve-kashmir-issue-says-us-state-department\/\"> General Michael Karella<\/a>, declared during a recent testimony before the House Armed Services Committee that the US must maintain strong and balanced relations with both India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Describing Pakistan as \u201can exceptional partner in the world of counterterrorism,\u201d General Karella praised Islamabad\u2019s continued cooperation in joint efforts to dismantle terrorist networks, especially the Islamic State Khorasan Branch (ISIS-K). He said Pakistan has played a significant role in the capture and extradition of high-profile militants and called it a key partner in maintaining regional and global security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to have relationships with Pakistan and India,\u201d the general said, pushing back on the idea that the US must choose between two nuclear-armed neighbors. \u201cI don\u2019t believe it\u2019s a binary switch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His remarks come at a time of complex regional dynamics, with India emerging as a key strategic partner for the US in the Indo-Pacific region, while Pakistan is crucial for counter-terrorism cooperation and regional stability, particularly in the context of Afghanistan and Central Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts see Karela\u2019s statement as reflecting Washington\u2019s evolving perspective on South Asia\u2014one that recognizes the importance of maintaining substantive diplomacy despite long-standing tensions with both New Delhi and Islamabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The head of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), General Michael Karella, declared during a recent testimony before the House Armed Services Committee that the US must maintain strong and balanced relations with both India and Pakistan. Describing Pakistan as \u201can exceptional partner in the world of counterterrorism,\u201d General Karella praised Islamabad\u2019s continued cooperation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":77061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29385,138,29386],"class_list":["post-77060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-general-michael-karella","tag-pakistan","tag-us-central-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77062,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77060\/revisions\/77062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}