WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump expressed on Friday that Pakistan and India “determines” the growing tensions between them, the two countries, the Tit-For-Tat diplomatic measures concerned a deadly attack on the occupied cashmere.
The attack took place in Pahalgam, a tourist hotspot in cashmere occupied by India which attracts thousands of visitors each summer. Armed men opened fire on visitors, killing at least 26 people – all men from all India, except one from Nepal – and wounding 17 others.
Addressing journalists on Air Force One, Trump declared in response to a question on the situation that tensions between nations existed for “1,500 years, so you know, the same as”.
He added: “But, they will be understood, in one way or another, I am sure. There has been a great tension between Pakistan and India, but there have always been.”
When he was asked if he would speak to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif or Narendra Modi, Trump replied: “I am very close to India and I am very close to Pakistan as you know”, adding that the cashmere dispute was underway “for a thousand years, probably longer”.
