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Donald Trump offers to mediate 'explosive' Kashmir standoff

"Kashmir is a very complicated place. You have Hindus and you have the Muslims and I wouldn't say they get along so great. "I will do the best I can to mediate," U.S. President Donald Trump said in Tuesday comments as speaking to reporters at White House.

AFP WORLD
Published August 20,2019
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Trump speaks during a meeting with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in the Oval Office of the White House. [AP Photo]

US President Donald Trump offered Tuesday to mediate the "explosive" situation in Kashmir, long a flashpoint between nuclear armed India and Pakistan.

Trump said he would raise the matter over the weekend with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who the US has urged to act to ease tensions in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

"Kashmir is a very complicated place. You have Hindus and you have the Muslims and I wouldn't say they get along so great," Trump told reporters.

"I will do the best I can to mediate," he said.