Last Updated on August 27, 2019 9:04 am by INDIAN AWAAZ
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US President Donald Trump on Monday said that India and Pakistan could handle their dispute over Kashmir on their own, but he was there should they need him.
Trump has previously offered to mediate between India and Pakistan on the contested Himalayan region. New Delhi rejected the offer while Islamabad welcomed it.
He discussed the issue on the sidelines of a G7 summit in France with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who withdrew special autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 on August 5.
Trump said Modi told him that he had Kashmir under control.
“We spoke last night about Kashmir, prime minister really feels he has it under control. They speak with Pakistan and I’m sure that they will be able to do something that will be very good,” the US president told reporters.
Modi, speaking alongside Trump, said that all issues between New Delhi and Islamabad were “bilateral in nature”.
“All issues between India & Pakistan are bilateral in nature, that is why we don’t bother any other country regarding them,” PM Modi said.
He said India and Pakistan were together before 1947 and that he was “confident that we can discuss our problems and solve them, together