'Where beneficial to US interests': Indian-origin Paul Kapur on vision about Pak

Paul Kapur, Donald Trump's Indian-origin prime for the relation of adjunct caput of authorities for South and Central Asia, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that helium would prosecute information practice with Pakistan wherever beneficial to US interests.

On India, Kapur said US and India stock a big of communal interests, including some of their committedness to guarantee a escaped and unfastened Indo-Pacific region, "which is not dominated by China". "If confirmed, I volition enactment to further beforehand US-India relations and enactment our concern connected people to recognize its tremendous promise," Kapur said. "On Pakistan, if confirmed, I volition prosecute information practice wherever beneficial to US interests, portion seeking opportunities for bilateral collaboration successful commercialized and investment," helium said. "South Asia precocious avoided a costly conflict, with the Vice President and Secretary Rubio intensely engaged connected the issue. If confirmed, I volition proceed to beforehand longstanding US information interests with India and Pakistan done the pursuit of bid and stability, and the fightagainst terrorism," helium said connected India-Pakistan relations earlier elaborating connected his imaginativeness astir what helium would bash with different countries, diplomatically.

'I visited India often during my childhood'

Paul Kapur besides spoke astir his Indian root astatine the Senate gathering and said helium was calved successful New Delhi to an Indian begetter and an American mother. "Although I visited India often during my childhood, I grew up successful the United States arsenic a thoroughly American kid, ne'er imagining that my vocation would someday instrumentality maine to the spot wherever I was born. But I became funny successful studying the portion successful postgraduate schoolhouse and soon was moving connected it arsenic a student and arsenic a authorities official," helium said.

Paul Kapur would win Donald Lu pending Senate confirmation. He is simply a prof successful the Department of National Security Affairs astatine the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a visiting chap astatine Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Kapur has besides been affiliated with Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Observer Research Foundation successful New Delhi. From 2020 to 2021, helium served connected the U.S.

State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, focusing connected South and Central Asia, Indo-Pacific strategy, and US-India relations.