Will do my best to mediate Kashmir issue: Trump

WASHINGTON (Web Desk) – US President Donald Trump has said that he will do his best to mediate or help somehow with the tensions between India and Pakistan over Kashmir issue. Speaking to the journalists at Oval office, he said Kashmir is a complicated issue and he would discuss the issue with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the weekend at G-7 meeting in France. “We are helping the situation, but there are tremendous problems between two countries and I will do the best I can to mediate or do something,” Donald Trump said. Trump had offered to mediate between Pakistan and India on Kashmir during Prime Minister Imran Khan's inaugural visit to the US, however, India had rejected the offer making it clear that there can't be any third-party intervention on the issue. However, Pakistan welcomed it. “Well, they’ve been having this — these talks for hundreds of years, even under different names. But this is — but its Kashmir. And Kashmir is a very complicated place. You have the Hindus and you have the Muslims, and I wouldn’t say they get along so great. And that’s what you have right now,” Trump said when asked if the issue between the two nuclear-armed neighbours was solvable. “You have millions of people that want to be ruled by others and maybe on both sides. And you have two countries that haven’t gotten along well for a long time. And, frankly, it’s a very explosive situation,” he added.