Quoting from this articleWithout saying so, the U.S. will have to be an intermediary. With Indians, American officials insist the Mumbai attacks woke Pakistani leaders up to the true threat of extremism -- in particular Nawaz Sharif, the former prime minister who controls the Punjab. India still distrusts him for past ties to Islamists. President Asif Ali Zardari may be politically weak, but the U.S. points out that India won't get a friendlier Pakistani leader.
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Team Obama wants India to draw down along the frontier to give Pakistan's military cover to shift forces westward against the Taliban. Back have come lectures from Indians about Pakistan's superior force strength on the border. India won't take orders from Washington lightly.
"New Delhi and Islamabad could be encouraged to reopen a back channel to discuss Kashmir and "comprehensive peace." None of this will be easy. But the solution to the Obama administration's so-called "AfPak" problem runs through India."
To me this sounded different to what India's publically stated position is ..
Obama is still groping, trying to make total sense of what is needed to be done to kill the Afghan problem once and for all. He has realised that the solution lies in Pakistan and not Afghanistan. Pakistanis know that too, and are therefore trying to squeeze as much as they can without doing much; that is why they want to get Kashmir into the picture too. I am sure that at an appropriate moment the US will call that bluff.
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