'India and Pakistan will find a way out': US President Trump expresses hope for peace
When Donald Trump was quizzed about the tension between India and Pakistan along the border, he replied, "The tension between the two has existed for a very long time. But I am certain they will figure it out somehow. I know both leaders, there is a great deal of tension between Pakistan and India, but it has always existed."
Since the terror attack on Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan is becoming more and more angry over India's firm step. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has reacted to the matter keeping in mind India's attitude while tension is growing between the two nations. He asserted that there is always tension between the two nations. Both will work it out somehow. In his first remarks since the Pahalgam terror attack, US President Donald Trump had referred to the attack as bad. Speaking with journalists in Air Force One, Trump added that the two countries' tension at the border had been a longstanding issue. Trump was optimistic that the two nations would resolve the matter.
Right next to India and Pakistan
"I'm extremely close to India and Pakistan, as you know, and they've been warring in Kashmir for a thousand years," Trump responded when queried about India-Pakistan tensions following the Kashmir attack. Kashmir has been ongoing for a thousand years, perhaps longer, and this was a poor attack.
#WATCH | On #PahalgamTerroristAttack, US President Donald Trump says, "I am very close to India and I'm very close to Pakistan, and they've had that fight for a thousand years in Kashmir. Kashmir has been going on for a thousand years, probably longer than that. That was a bad… pic.twitter.com/R4Bc25Ar6h
— ANI (@ANI) April 25, 2025
Tension along the border for 1500 years
He added that there was always tension between India and Pakistan at the border. Trump replied, when asked whether he was worried by the tension between India and Pakistan at the border, "There has been tension on that border for 1,500 years." But I am sure they will manage to sort it out somehow. I know both leaders, there is a lot of tension between India and Pakistan, but it has always existed.
Pahalgam terrorist attack
Tourists in Baisaran meadow at Pahalgam were attacked by terrorists on April 22 and 25 Indian nationals and a Nepalese national were killed and many others were injured. After the terror attack, the central government declared a series of diplomatic actions like shutting down the check post (ICP) in Attari, putting on hold the SAARC Visa Waiver Scheme (SVES) for Pakistani citizens, providing them with 40 hours to leave the country and cutting down the number of officials in the high commissions of both nations.
India halts Indus Waters Treaty
India also suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty in response to the attack on Pahalgam. Indus Waters Treaty was implemented with the help of the World Bank in 1960 after nine years of negotiations between Pakistan and India. The negotiation process was begun by then World Bank president Eugene Black. Regarded as the most successful international treaty, it has stood many times of frequent tensions, including war. It has supplied an irrigation and hydropower development framework for over half a century.
The treaty assigns the western rivers (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab) to Pakistan and the eastern rivers (Ravi, Beas, Sutlej) to India. The treaty also provides for some use of the rivers assigned to one country by the other. The treaty assigns 20 per cent of water of the Indus river to India and the remaining 80 per cent to Pakistan.
