Correction For The Record: U.S. Position On Kashmir

December 29, 2009

Islamabad - A national daily newspaper published an article on Monday stating that U.S. Special Representative Ambassador Richard Holbrooke told an interviewer that the U.S. is brokering a deal on the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan.

This assertion is false and baseless. Ambassador Holbrooke made no such statement.  Moreover, he reiterated the long-standing U.S. position on the Kashmir issue as recently as his December 15 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations.