U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s ideas are very dangerous and un-American as he criticised the business tycoon for playing into the hands of Islamic State by using anti-Muslim rhetoric.“Trump’s ideas are not only profoundly wrong, they’re very dangerous and they’re very un-American. You know, they reveal a profound ignorance of our constitution,” Mr. Biden said.“It’s a recipe for playing into the hands of terrorists and their propaganda,” Mr. Biden said at an election really in Pennsylvania where he campaigned for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee.

“Last year, ISIS’s top leader who we had been tracking since we got Bin Laden, his name is Al-Baghdadi and he revealed the goal of ISIS, he just said it straight out. You can go on their website,” Mr. Biden said.He said their goal is to, quote, “compel the crusaders to actively destroy the gray zones themselves,” meaning anywhere where Christians and Muslims live, he calls a gray zone. He said the objective is to actively destroy that gray zone,” he said.

“Muslims in the west, he says, will have to quickly find themselves between two choices. Either apostatise or emigrate to the Islamic state and thereby escape prosecution. How does he make the case? By pointing out that no Muslim is welcome in the west,” Mr. Biden said.“ISIS wants to manufacture a clash of civilisations between us versus them. Trump is trying to give them exactly what they want,” Mr. Biden said.“Last week he stood in front of a crowd in Florida and said President Obama founded a terrorist organisation, ISIS,” he said as he described this as an outrageous statement.

“But let me tell you why it’s a dangerous statement. Why —— as he might say, the bad guys are listening. Yesterday, the head of Hezbollah, a terrorist organisation, Iran’s top terrorist surrogate, and a direct threat to our ally Israel, repeated Trump’s claim in the entire Muslim world and — I mean, around the world, that President Obama founded ISIS,” he said.

Mr. Trump, he alleged, is already making the country less safe.

“He has said, “Hillary hasn’t forgotten more about American foreign policies than Trump and his entire team will ever understand.”

Pakistan on Monday invited India for talks on Kashmir, saying it is the “international obligation” of both the countries to resolve the issue, notwithstanding India’s insistence that it would talk on “contemporary and relevant” issues in Indo-Pak relations.Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria said in a statement that Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale was called to hand over a letter of invitation for talks.

“The Foreign Secretary called in the Indian High Commissioner this afternoon [Monday] and handed over a letter addressed to his Indian counterpart, inviting him to visit Pakistan for talks on Jammu and Kashmir dispute that has been the main bone of contention between India and Pakistan,” Mr. Zakaria said.

War of words over the K-word

The invitation was extended amid tension in bilateral ties due to the war of words between the two nations over the issue.“The letter highlights the international obligation of both the countries, India and Pakistan, to resolve the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, in accordance with the U.N. Security Council resolutions,” the statement said.Pakistan’s adviser on foreign affairs said last week that a conference of envoys of Pakistan earlier this month had agreed that Islamabad seek talks with New Delhi.

Invite after Rajnath’s statement

The invite came days after Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh addressed Parliament on the Kashmir issue and said that India was willing to discuss only Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) with Pakistan, and that the question of discussing Jammu and Kashmir with Islamabad just did not arise.India also virtually turned down Pakistan’s proposal that it would invite India for a dialogue on J&K and made it clear that it would talk on “contemporary and relevant” issues in Indo-Pak relations.