US christens PM’s vision of Indo-US ties as Modi Doctrine

DESCRIBING the just concluded US visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “historic”, the Obama administration has christened his vision of Indo-US ties that has overcome the “hesitations of history” and working for the betterment of the global good as “Modi Doctrine”.

“The most important outcome in my mind of the visit this week and of the years of effort that preceded it is the clear and compelling vision that was laid out by Prime Minister Modi before joint session of the US Congress,” Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal said.

“This vision which I have come to call The Modi Doctrine laid out a foreign policy that overcomes the hesitations of history and embraces the convergence between our two countries and our shared interests,”

Washington,June10:Ina strong message, the US has asked Pakistan to ensure that its territory is not used for planning attacks in India and to go after all terror groups operating from its soil, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said terrorism is being “incubated in India’s neighbourhood”. “This is one of the steps that the US is encouraging Pakistan to do for the improvement of its relations with India,” a State Department spokesperson said. PTI Biswal told a Washington audience.

Biswal, the Obama Administration’s point person for South and Central Asia, said this at a discussion on ‘Security and Strategic Outcomes from the Modi Visit’ organised on Thursday here jointly by the Heritage Foundation — an American think- tank — and India Foundation, a New Delhi based think-tank. PTI