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NEW DELHI: An Indian all-party delegation left for the United States to brief US president-elect Barack Obama about the Kashmir dispute.

The Indian government earlier downplayed Obama’s linking of the resolution of the Afghanistan conflict with the Kashmir crisis, describing it as “pre-election rhetoric that deserves to be ignored”. However, after the election of Obama as US president, India is a bit worried about the future policy of the new US administration on Kashmir.

The delegation was earlier meant to participate only in the meetings of a United Nations committee in New York, but after Obama’s recent statement regarding the Kashmir dispute, the Indian External Affairs Ministry felt the need for including Washington in the delegation’s itinerary.

The delegation includes Kashmir Committee Convener Ashok Bhan, Priya Dutt, Vijay Bahugna, Trichi Shiv, Anant Geetey, Prahalad Joshi, Sukhdev Paswan, Jaya Pradha and Jabir Hussain.
Meanwhile Obama appoints Indian girl as advisor, Sonal Shah, a Gujarati NRI has been picked up by Obama to be in his transition team. Obama is picking up his advisors for smooth transition to the White House.

Sonal Shah is well known in the Indian-American community for her involvement with the non-profit Indicorps that she founded. She was earlier with Goldman Sachs, and is presently with Google.org, the philanthropic arm of internet behemoth Google.

Now, Shah, who has been earlier also been with the liberal think-tank Center for American Progress, has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Obama-Biden Transition team.





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