New Delhi [India], December 6 (ANI): Senior Congress chief and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh on Saturday took a delicate dig on the present state of India-US relations, notably Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s relation with US President Donald Trump, following the discharge of the US’ 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS), which claims Trump’s mediation between India and Pakistan following May’s escalation following Operation Sindoor, in retaliation to the April 22 terror assault in Pahalgam which claimed 26 lives.
In a put up on X, the Congress chief acknowledged that the 33-page doc, launched by the White House on Thursday, reiterates in its introduction–and once more on web page 8–that Trump ‘settled eight raging conflicts’, together with the May escalation between India and Pakistan.
He additional famous that the shift within the US strategy in direction of Pakistan in comparison with the 2017 technique doc, which got here throughout Trump’s first time period, identified that the 2025 technique makes no references to the US’s criticism of Pakistan for supporting militants focusing on Washington’s companions, calling for stronger counterterrorism measures, and urging Islamabad to exhibit accountable administration of its nuclear arsenal.
‘The 33-page National Security Strategy of the USA has simply been launched by the White House. In his introduction to the doc, President Trump reiterates his declare that he ‘settled the raging battle between India and Pakistan.’ The similar declare is repeated on web page 8. The 2025 National Security Strategy additionally marks a notable shift within the US strategy to Pakistan. It avoids the specific criticism that outlined the 2017 Trump-era technique doc, which brazenly accused Pakistan of supporting militants focusing on U.S. companions, demanded stronger counterterrorism motion, and pressed Islamabad to exhibit accountable administration of its nuclear arsenal. The new technique omits any such references,’ Ramesh stated in his put up.
He concluded his put up with a sarcastic dig at ties between PM Modi and Trump, saying, ‘Kya se kya hoh gaya bewafa tere dosti mein.’
The India-Pakistan battle refers back to the escalation in May following India’s Operation Sindoor, a sequence of precision strikes on 9 terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam terror assault in Jammu and Kashmir.
Meanwhile, the Trump Administration has positioned India as a vital accomplice in its newly launched National Security Strategy, signalling Washington’s intent to deepen cooperation with New Delhi throughout financial, technological and defence sectors.
The technique doc, launched by the White House, explicitly requires improved business relations with India and encourages New Delhi to ‘contribute to Indo-Pacific safety’ by continued cooperation within the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue alongside Australia, Japan and the United States. (ANI)