{"id":314391,"date":"2019-08-02T04:18:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T04:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314391"},"modified":"2019-08-02T04:18:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T04:18:44","slug":"us-president-donald-trump-again-offers-to-mediate-on-kashmir-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-president-donald-trump-again-offers-to-mediate-on-kashmir-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"US president Donald Trump again offers to mediate on Kashmir dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305881 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump-696x433.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump-675x420.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>US President Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated his offer to\u00a0mediate the Kashmir issue. He said it was up to India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue, but he was ready to assist if the two countries wanted his help to resolve the decades-old dispute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar informed Parliament that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made no request to US President Donald Trump to mediate on the Kashmir issue. India has maintained that all outstanding issues with Pakistan could be discussed only bilaterally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump was referring to his last week&#8217;s meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, wherein he offered to help to resolve the Kashmir issue. Pakistan has welcomed his statement. However, his offer was strongly rejected by India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really up to PM Modi (to accept the offer of mediation),&#8221; Trump told reporters responding to a question on India not accepting his offer of mediation on Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I think they are fantastic people \u2013 Imran Khan and Narendra Modi &#8212; I mean. I would imagine they could get along very well, but if they wanted somebody to intervene, to help them and I spoke with Pakistan about that and I spoke frankly in (sic) India about it,&#8221; Trump said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last week, President Trump had claimed that PM Modi had asked him to play the role of a mediator on Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump said, \u201che had received a request to do so from PM Modi during a recent meeting with him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIf I can help, I would love to be a mediator. If I can do anything to help, let me know,\u201d Trump had said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India quickly denied the claim and made it clear that the Kashmir issue was never discussed between PM Modi and Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated his offer to\u00a0mediate the Kashmir issue. He said it was up to India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue, but he was ready to assist if the two countries wanted his help to resolve the decades-old dispute. This came after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar informed Parliament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[64,574,11694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314392,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314391\/revisions\/314392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}