India, Pak PMS set to take showdown to UN stage today
Imran expected to raise J&K issue
NEWYORK: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will cap an eventful week-long visit to the US, marked by two interactions with President Donald Trump, with an address to the UN General Assembly on Friday a short while before his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan.
Modi resolutely focused on positioning India as a key player in a changing global order in the face of repeated attempts by Pakistan to internationalise the Kashmir issue in the aftermath of New Delhi’s August 5 decision to revoke Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and reorganise the state into two Union Territories.
Though Modi launched a veiled attack on Pakistan for sponsoring and supporting terrorism against India while sharing the stage with Trump at the “Howdy, Modi!” event in Houston on Sunday, even calling for a “decisive battle” against terror, he has used most of his bilateral and multilateral meetings and other engagements in New York to highlight India’s role in tackling global challenges such as climate change and to pitch the country as a trade and investment destination to America’s NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump said he offered “arbitration or mediation” on the Kashmir issue to the top leadership of India and Pakistan during separate meetings and the two nuclear-armed neighbours have to “just work it out”. Trump’s comments came a day after he held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and two days after he met Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. “I said, ‘Fellas, work it out. Just work it out,’” Trump said.