India, Pakistan making progress on Kashmir

In an exclusive interview to ANI, Richard Boucher, US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia said that New Delhi and Islamabad had made some visible progress on the contentious issue and were taking forward the Composite Dialogue process in a very careful manner.

"You've seen some really good progress between India and Pakistan in the composite dialogue including on the aspect of Kashmir," said Boucher.

"They've had now confidence building measures--started bus lines, railroads, people back and forth in a way that they never had before, and each of them has stepped forward with I think some new ideas, some new thoughts, some new contacts in terms of political parties and the interest of different groups in-in Kashmir, so there's a fair amount of thinking going on -- new ideas coming forth and -- and new steps being taken and that's good," he said.

"They've--they've got a flow of people and goods back and forth; that can always be expanded and confidence building measures can be expanded, but they're also setting up now a new set of discussions and the whole composite dialogue including Kashmir and that's important that they just keep at it because they've been doing the right thing and we want to see them keep at it," he added.