American President Donald Trump has said he hoped tensions between India and Pakistan would de-escalate quickly, following Indian attacks on targets inside Pakistan.
“They’ve been fighting for many, many decades,” Trump said at a White House event.
“I just hope it ends very quickly.”
“People knew something was going to happen based on a little bit of the past,” he added.
TheNewsGuru reports that India launched military strikes on Pakistan on Wednesday claiming to be targeting the hideouts of militant groups behind a late April attack in the disputed region of Kashmir in which at least 26 civilians were killed, and Pakistan claimed it shot down five Indian Air Force jets, in an escalation that has pushed the two nations to the brink of a wider conflict
Meanwhile, at least three civilians were killed by Pakistani shelling in the Indian-controlled part of the disputed Kashmir region, according to Indian reports.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that he was monitoring the situation between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
“I echo (Trump’s) comments earlier today that this hopefully ends quickly and will continue to engage both Indian and Pakistani leadership towards a peaceful resolution,” Rubio said on social media platform X.