The US has reminded Pakistan emphatically that it expects justice for the 26/11 attack on Mumbai
Highlights
- PM Modi this week spoke of "single nation" spreading terror
- US reminds Pak "accountability and justice" needed for 26/11
- John Kerry made similar remarks on Pak during Delhi visit last week
Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it clear that "a single nation" is responsible for terrorism in South Asia, the US has reminded Pakistan emphatically that it expects justice for the 26/11 attack on Mumbai, the worst ever terror strike in India.
"We've been very clear that we want to see accountability and justice in the case of the Mumbai attacks, and as you noted, there were American citizens who lost their lives in that," said US State Department deputy spokesperson Mark Toner on Monday.
166 people were killed when a group of 10 terrorists from Pakistan sailed into Mumbai and laid siege to some of the city's biggest landmarks.
During his visit to Delhi last week, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that America fully supports India's demand for Pakistan to punish the men responsible for 26/11 as well as January's terror attack on the air force base in Pathankot in which seven military personnel were killed.
"We want to see full accountability for these terrible attacks," the US state department spokesperson reiterated today.
Earlier this week, PM Modi addressed the G-20 summit in China and did not name Pakistan but said "a single nation is spreading agents of terror in our region." At the conference of the leaders of the world's largest economies, the PM also spoke to Chinese President Xi Jingping to make clear India's concerns about a huge trade corridor being built by China for $46 billion that runs through parts of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.
The relationship between India and Pakistan has plummeted over the recent violence in Kashmir in which nearly 70 people were killed and over 10,000 injured, many of them security forces. Pakistan has complained that India has violated human rights in the Kashmir Valley to quell the dissent . India has blamed Pakistan for instigating and funding the violence that began with the shooting in July of 22-year-old terrorist Burhna Wani ,who has been eulogized by Pakistan as a martyr.