“Need To See It Cease”: Trump As India-Pak Tensions Rise After Op Sindoor

Washington:

Amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, US President Donald Trump mentioned if he may do something to assist, “I will probably be there” and desires the escalating battle between the 2 international locations to “cease”.

“Oh it is so horrible. My place is I get together with each. I do know each very properly and I need to see them work it out. I need to see them cease and hopefully they will cease now. They’ve gone tit for tat so hopefully they will cease now. I do know them each, we get together with each the international locations very properly.

“Good relationships with each and I need to see it cease. And If I can do something to assist I will probably be there,” Trump mentioned in response to a query on the ‘conflict’ between India and Pakistan.

Earlier, Trump mentioned he hopes that the hostilities will finish “in a short time”.

“It is a disgrace, he mentioned, including, “We heard about it simply as we had been strolling within the doorways of the Oval (Workplace). I assume folks knew one thing was going to occur primarily based on slightly little bit of the previous.” “They have been combating for a very long time. They have been combating for a lot of, many many years and centuries, truly, should you actually give it some thought,” Trump mentioned.

Requested if he has any message for the international locations, he mentioned, “No, I simply hope it ends in a short time.” India launched Operation Sindoor early Wednesday hitting 9 terror targets in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Punjab in retaliation for the phobia assault in Pahalgam on April 22 that killed 26 folks.

In the meantime, Pakistan Military spokesman Lt Gen Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry mentioned 31 folks had been killed and 57 others injured within the missile strikes launched shortly after midnight on cities within the Punjab province and PoK, and firing on the Line of Management.

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