WEB DESK
United States President Donald Trump today hinted that there would be some “reasonably decent news” on the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan, a day after the two nuclear powers both downed enemy jets and Pakistan captured an Indian pilot.
The US, China and other world powers have urged restraint from the two nations as tensions escalate following tit-for-tat air strikes in the wake of a suicide car bombing that killed at least 40 CRPF personnel in Kashmir on February 14.
Trump said that the United States was “involved” in mediating between India and Pakistan and in “trying to have them stop”. “And we have some reasonably decent news… and I think it is going to end… it has been going on for a long time,” Trump said, referring to the heightened tensions between India and Pakistan.
New Delhi and Islamabad have been on the brink of armed conflict since the Febrauary 14 suicide bombing of a Central Reserve Police Force convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama that killed 40 jawans. The Pulwama terror attack was carried out by the Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad.