<br/>The US has shot down Pakistan's plea to help it resume peace talks with India and mediate on key disputes with India on issues including Kashmir. Special US Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke told journalists at a joint press conference with the Pakistani Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir in Washington that it is for India and Pakistan to resolve all their disputes bilaterally and the Obama Administration does not see a role for itself in it unless both the countries want it.<br/><br/> Responding to questions from the Pakistani media on this issue, Holbrooke, however, said that the US encourages both India and Pakistan to talk to each other on all the issues. He said talking on Kashmir is not in his mandate. Holbrooke said the first ever Cabinet level Strategic Dialogue between the two countries would be an important milestone in building relationship US-Pak between.