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'Islamabad told United States not push too far on Kashmir as it's ours', reveals declassified documents

US had asked Pakistan in 2002 to end infiltration across the Line of Control in J&K but was instead told not to push it too far" on the issue with an assertion that “Kashmir should have been ours", Times of India quoting declassified documents released by the National Security Archive of the George Washington University reported on September 14. This communication forms part of a meeting Richard Haass, the then director of policy planning staff at the US state department, had with an unnamed Pakistani military official on October 31, 2002 to discuss US-Pak cooperation a year after the deadly 9/11 attacks in the US. &quotOn Kashmir, Hass stressed the importance of ending infiltration, but the Pakistan official warned the US not to push Pakistan too far on Kashmir," classified documents said.



Further, the declassified documents reveals that as the US prepared to invade Afghanistan in 2001 after 9/11 attacks, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) wanted America to enter into a dialogue with the Taliban, but the then George Bush Administration “bluntly” told President Pervez Musharraf that it had no inclination to do so. According to classified documents released by the National Security Archive of the George Washington University, two days after al-Qaeda unleashed terror on the US, its envoy to Pakistan Wendy Chamberlin “bluntly” told Musharraf on September 13, 2001 that there was “absolutely no inclination in Washington to enter into a dialogue with the Taliban, which controlled Afghanistan at that time. “The time for dialogue was finished as of September 11,” he told Musharraf, the documents said.