Asserting that he could solve anything, President Donald Trump has renewed his offer to mediate Pakistan-India dispute over Kashmir, where the killing of Indian tourists in April sparked the deadliest conflict in decades between two South Asian nuclear powers.
Trump, who brokered a ceasefire between the two longtime rivals, on May 10, had also offered to help the two neighbors toward resolution to the longstanding Jammu and Kashmir dispute.
On Thursday, the president once again stated at the White House that he stopped the clashes between India and Pakistan that could have gone nuclear.
“Eventually they were gonna go nuclear … and I stopped it, I called each leader … and I spoke to them and talked about trade,” Trump said at a bill-signing ceremony.
Referring to his diplomatic intervention in the high-intensity confrontation between India and Pakistan, Trump recalled, “I said, ‘You’re not trading with us if you go to war … if you’re going to start throwing nuclear weapons around.
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“They were both unbelievable. They understood it exactly, they stopped. I stopped that war with phone calls and trade,” Trump remarked.
Currently, the United States and India are negotiating a trade deal while, Trump said a Pakistani delegation would arrive in Washington for negotiations.
The president, in response to a question, said, the United States will get India and Pakistan together.
“We’re going to get them together. I told them, India and Pakistan … they have a longtime rivalry over Kashmir. I told them ‘I can solve anything.’
“I will be your arbitrator. I will be your arbitrator. I can solve anything,” he added.
India and Pakistan control parts of the disputed Himalayan Kashmir territory and both claim it belongs to their countries entirely.
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In April when gunmen killed 26 Indian terrorists in Pahalgam, New Delhi quickly pointed finger at Pakistan. Islamabad denied the charge and offered to be part of a neutral investigation into the incident.
After weeks of heightened tensions, India launched airstrikes into Pakistani cities, claiming it was targeting the terror infrastructures linked to the perpetrators of April 22 attack.
Pakistan retaliating forcefully, downing five Indian warplanes including high-tech French Rafales, and also carried out its own operation against Indian targets.
It was only after intense diplomacy that Trump was able to convince them to committing to a ceasefire, which he announced on May 10.
Ali Imran is a Washington-based journalist, who has worked for leading world news organizations as a correspondent, expert and in editorial positions. He is a published author and poet.
