Washington: Today, The US stated that it does not support declaring Pakistan a terrorist State.

According to State Department spokesperson John Kirby, "I have not seen anything specifically about the - such a bill, and obviously we don't", kirby said, whe asked that the government would support a bill in the Congress and an online appeal that the US should assert Pakistan a terrorist state.

He further added, “What we - what I would say is common threat, common challenge in the region, and we're going to continue to work with Pakistan, with Afghanistan, and the Secretary (of State) just came back from Brussels and the Afghanistan conference in Brussels. And obviously it's a threat to the Indian people as well.So we're going to continue to work with the governments in the region to try to address these common threats and challenges, and we've always said that more can be done about the safe havens and that's - we're going to, again, try to work as cooperatively as we can to that end".

"On the Kashmir issue, our position has not changed. We want this to be worked out between both sides, the issue of Kashmir. And generally, we obviously want to see the tensions that exist right now be brought down and for dialogue to take its place - meaningful dialogue to try to address these issues bilaterally between the countries. There are still differences of opinion that exist between them; and as I said earlier, we want them to work through those differences. We have differences with many countries too, and we continue to try to work through them," Kirby said.

"That's all we're asking, that's all we're hoping, that's all we're expecting from leaders in India and Pakistan. But we don't believe for a minute that they don't take the challenges before them seriously or the lives and security of their children," he said.

"I think we've said before we're confident that Pakistan has the security controls they need to have in place on their arsenal," Kirby said.