President-elect Barack Obama rightly recognizes the need for theU.S. to engage in more robust regional diplomacy in south Asia. Buthe must avoid appointing a Kashmir-specific envoy, which couldbackfire.
As the U.S. and India both continue to look for strategies that caneffectively protect their citizens from terrorism, each countrystands to gain considerably by sharing experiences and bestpractices and increasing their overall intelligence cooperationagainst global and regional terrorist threats.
China has blocked a United Nations proposal by India and the United States to designate Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders Shahid Mahmood and Hafiz Talah Saeed as global terrorists.