What Trump says about India-Pakistan tensions

US President Donald Trump on Friday, while speaking about the Pahalgam terror attack and its fallout, said that India and Pakistan will figure out a solution for the tensions between themselves.

This comes as tensions soared between the two neighbouring countries after both took multiple actions after the terror attack.

Donald Trump, while speaking to reporters on Air Force One, said that there is a history of conflict between India and Pakistan over the border region, but did not answer when asked if he would contact the two countries regarding the dispute.

“They’ll get it figured out one way or the other,” he said as he travelled aboard his plane. “There’s great tension between Pakistan and India, but there always has been.”

26 civilians were killed and others were left injured after terrorists opened fire on a group of tourists in Kashmir’s Pahalgam. The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), claimed responsibility for the attack.

On Thursday, State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce, when asked if Washington is playing any role in de-escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, said, “What I can tell you is, of course, as we all know, it’s a rapidly changing situation and we are monitoring it closely, as you might imagine. And we, of course, are not now taking a position on the status of Kashmir or of Jammu either, so that’s really going to be the extent of what I can say today.”

When asked if President Trump had offered to mediate between India and Pakistan during his first term, Bruce said, “I’m not going to be remarking… as I mentioned.”

On Wednesday, Donald Trump strongly condemned the terror attack in Pahalgam in a phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and expressed full support to India to bring to justice the perpetrators of the “heinous attack.”

(With inputs from Reuters, PTI)