Trump Publicly Claims Credit for Indo-Pak Ceasefire and Promises to Solve the Kashmir Issue: Interesting Time Ahead?

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I am very proud of the strong and unwaveringly powerful leadership of India and Pakistan for having the strength, wisdom, and fortitude to fully know and understand that it was time to stop the current aggression that could have lead to to the death and destruction of so many, and so much. Millions of good and innocent people could have died! Your legacy is greatly enhanced by your brave actions. I am proud that the USA was able to help you arrive at this historic and heroic decision. While not even discussed, I am going to increase trade, substantially, with both of these great Nations. Additionally, I will work with you both to see if, after a “thousand years,” a solution can be arrived at concerning Kashmir. God Bless the leadership of India and Pakistan on a job well done!!!

May 11, 2025, 9:28 AM

[The message has essentially two parts.

I. In the first part, Trump has categorically asserted that: "I am proud that the USA was able to help you [i.e. the two feuding nuclear neighbours -- India and Pakistan] arrive at this historic and heroic decision [of immediately effecting a ceasefire so as to avert deaths of millions of good and innocent people]."

II. "I will work with you both to see if, after a “thousand years,” a solution can be arrived at concerning Kashmir."

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While the first part is fairly straightforward and in fact all too obvious (ref.: <https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/us-vp-vance-called-pm-modi-told-him-of-possible-off-ramp-after-receiving-alarming-intel-cnn/articleshow/121070776.cms> and <

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/how-the-needle-moved-escalation-by-pakistan-call-from-rubio-to-munir-9995359/>), the second part is pretty well more complex.

Pakistan, being the (far) weaker of the two, has always clamoured for international intervention/mediation to solve the "Kashmir issue", but India's traditional position was/is that "Kashmir" is a strictly "bilateral issue" and there's no room for any third-party intervention.

Following that principle, in the recent decades, we had seen two very serious attempts: (i) in Agra in June 2001 (between Vajpayee and Musharraf) and (ii) in Sharm El Shaikh in July 2009 (between Manmohan Singh and the Prime Minister of Pakistan Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani). 

Despite raising considerable hopes, the latter one in particular, nothing tangible came out. (Regardless of a rather great start, the former one had been torpedoed midway by BJP's internal tussles.)

Subsequently, under Modi, India further hardened its stand, the SAARC became defunct and but for an unscheduled and surprise private visit of Modi to a family function of Nawaz Sharif almost at the very beginning of his term (in December 2015), meaningful communications at the top level just stopped.

It would be quite interesting to see what the Trump administration has in mind and how the Modi regime is going to respond.

It also bears mentioning that (i) both the countries, in the aftermath of the ceasefire, are claiming victory and (ii) the main Indian Opposition Party Congress has in the meanwhile adopted virtually a more hawkish position than the hawk itself.

(Moreover, on the Indian side, stories are being circulated denying American role. Though there's no matching high level response as yet.)

So, interesting time ahead?]

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