Amid escalating tensions with Pakistan after India launched airstrike on terror launchpads in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, US President Donald Trump has expressed considerations and mentioned that “he will likely be there” to supply assist and needs the escalating battle between the 2 international locations to “cease”.
“It is so horrible. My place is I get together with each. I do know each very properly and I wish to see them work it out. I wish 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,” Trump mentioned.
“I’ve good relationships with each and I wish to see it cease. And If I can do something to assist I will likely be there,” Trump mentioned in response to a query on the ‘warfare’ between India and Pakistan.
India launched Operation Sindoor early Wednesday hitting 9 terror targets in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan in retaliation for the fear assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22 that killed 26 folks.
Earlier on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned that he’s carefully monitoring the state of affairs between India and Pakistan, following Indian missile strikes on a number of terror websites in Pakistan.
In an announcement posted on X, Rubio mentioned, “I’m monitoring the state of affairs between India and Pakistan carefully. I echo President Trump’s feedback earlier in the present day that this hopefully ends shortly and can proceed to have interaction each Indian and Pakistani management in the direction of a peaceable decision.”
Earlier on Wednesday, Trump on Tuesday reacted to India’s Operation Sindoor, saying that he hopes that the hostilities between India and Pakistan 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 suppose folks knew one thing was going to occur based mostly on a bit of little bit of the previous.”
“They have been preventing for a very long time. They have been preventing for a lot of, many a long time and centuries, truly, if you happen to 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.”