Donald Trump stated he will probably be working with India and Pakistan to see if an answer could be reached over Kashmir.
Writing on Fact Social after beforehand taking credit score for the ceasefire, the US president stated: “I will work with you both (India and Pakistan) to see if, after a ‘thousand years’, a solution can be arrived at concerning Kashmir.”
President Trump’s feedback have been met with criticism.
Indian MP Manish Tewari identified in a publish on X that the scenario in Kashmir “is not a biblical 1,000-year-old conflict” however as an alternative started in 1947.
“How difficult is it to grasp this simple fact?” he wrote.
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Pakistan’s Overseas Workplace additionally reaffirmed that any lasting settlement of disputes over Jammu and Kashmir should embody the suitable of Kashmiri individuals to self-determination.
‘Individuals have not slept for days’ in Kashmir
“Until yesterday, I was terrified, and so was everybody in Kashmir,” he stated.
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A Kashmiri villager examines his home brought on by in a single day shelling in Pakistan’s administered Kashmir on 10 Might. File pic: AP
“I spoke to friends in Kashmir that said people hadn’t slept for days. On the borders, it’s been a bloodbath.
“Individuals have fled their houses, houses have been destroyed, shelling in every single place, houses on hearth, makeshift bunkers. It has been fairly brutal.”
Mr Waheed added that he spoke to a friend recently who described families as “shivering in concern”.
“Kashmiris have had sufficient, they’re bored with monumental struggling, they paid the heaviest value,” he stated.
Ceasefire holds regardless of violation claims
Sky’s Asia correspondent Cordelia Lynch stated there was a “huge sigh of relief” that the ceasefire remained in place on Sunday after each side had accused one another of violating the settlement.
“I think what is telling is how it’s being communicated to the domestic audiences in India and Pakistan,” she stated, talking from Lahore in Pakistan.
“Here, there is a sort of air of triumphalism. You get the sense that Pakistan feels like it’s the stronger party coming out of this moment.”
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She additionally defined that the reward for America’s position in de-escalation is simply being heard from one aspect.
“Pakistan has certainly expressed its gratitude to Donald Trump, they claim America played a pivotal role,” she stated.
“That is not echoed in New Delhi… they’ve been pretty quiet on America’s involvement.”
The ceasefire deal follows days of heightened tensions between India and Pakistan after the 2 international locations traded drone and missile strikes and reported civilian casualties.
India launched strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered territory on Wednesday, in what it stated was a response to the militant gun assault in Indian-controlled Kashmir final month, which killed 26 individuals.
On the day earlier than the ceasefire, Pakistan fired high-speed missiles at “multiple targets” throughout India after accusing Delhi of concentrating on three airbases inside Pakistan.
