After Last week’s high level meeting with India, the White House says India-United States defense cooperation and engagement has increased significantly over the past decade, in step with the overall deepening of India-U.S. relations. “We continue to work toward achieving the full vision of expanded defense cooperation set forth in the 2005 New Framework Agreement, ” the White House said in a statement. The close U.S. relationship with India has been a point of contention for some in Pakistan — which the U.S. has also sought closer ties with. Pakistan and India have a long history of distrust.

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