Trump Offers to Mediate Between India and Pakistan on Kashmir Issue
US President Donald Trump on Monday offered to mediate between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue as he met Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House for the first time.
Washington, Jul 22 (PTI) US President Donald Trump on Monday offered to mediate between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue as he met Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House for the first time.
Trump said that he is ready to help, if the two countries ask.
"If I can help, I would love to be a mediator," Trump said in his opening remarks at the Oval Office.
India maintains that the Kashmir issue is a bilateral one and no third party has any role.
Khan welcomed Trump's remarks and said if the US agrees, prayers of more than a billion people will be with him.
He was accompanied by Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi among others.
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