President Donald Trump said peace was 'probably going to be happening.'
President Donald Trump suggested that tensions between Pakistan and India might be coming to an end, as Pakistan announced it would release a captured Indian fighter pilot despite reports of continuing exchanges of weapons fire along the disputed Kashmir border.
The president also explained that the U.S. had been acting as an intermediary. “We’ve been involved in trying to have them stop," Trump said, The Washington Post reported. "We’ve been in the middle, trying to help both out to see if we can get some organization and peace, and I think probably that’s going to be happening.”
The downed fighter pilot has become the face of the diplomatic crisis that has developed between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. He came to prominence when video emerged of a blindfolded and bloodied Varthaman undergoing questioning immediately after his capture, though Pakistan later released more footage showing him unrestrained and drinking tea after receiving medical treatment.
In response, the Indian air force launched a series of air strikes on alleged terrorist training camps near the Pakistani town of Balakot, just across the border between the two countries. The Indian government claimed that 300 suspected militants had been killed.
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