U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said that there have “always been tensions” between India and Pakistan, as relations between the two neighbouring countries worsened after a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam killed 26 people this week.
“I am very close to India and I’m very close to Pakistan, and they’ve had that fight for a thousand years in Kashmir,” Trump said. “Kashmir has been going on for a thousand years, probably longer than that. That was a bad one (terrorist attack).”
He further commented on the enduring strain in South Asia: “There have been tensions on that border for 1,500 years. It’s been the same, but I am sure they’ll figure it out one way or the other. I know both leaders. There’s great tension between Pakistan and India, but there always has been.”
The former president’s comments come in the wake of a deadly terror attack in Pahalgam.
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