Row after US envoy’s PoK visit

New Delhi, Sep 26: Amid a row over the US envoy to Islamabad visiting Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, US ambassador to India Eric Garcetti on Tuesday said the American delegation has visited Jammu and Kashmir as well for G20 meetings. Garcetti was reacting to questions on US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome’s six-day visit to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) last week. “It’s not my place to react to the US Ambassador in Pakistan but he’s been before and we obviously had part of our delegation in Jammu and Kashmir during G20 as well,” the American envoy told reporters on the sidelines of the 20th Indo-US Economic Summit.
At the same time, Garcetti made it clear that the Jammu and Kashmir issue has to be resolved bilaterally by India and Pakistan and not by any third party, including the US. (PTI)