“We want to talk about, like Afghanistan as there are issues with them too. But, we are on the same page and that is India, no doubt, is a huge issue
Davos: On Tuesday Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan met US President Donald Trump and again repeated his offer to “help” on Kashmir issue. Despite refusing for several times from New Delhi the US President Trump’s fourth such offer since August 2019, when the government abrogated the special status to Jammu and Kashmir. The US President Donald Trump is expected to visit India next month and which would be his first visit to India.
While addressing the media with Imran Khan ahead of their talks on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Trump said: “We are talking about Kashmir issue and with relation to what’s going on with India and Pakistan. If we can help, we will be helping. We have been observing it and following it very, very closely”.
“We want to talk about, like Afghanistan as there are issues with them too. But, we are on the same page and that is India, no doubt, is a huge issue. We always hope that the US will play its role in resolving that because no other nation can,” Imran Khan said.
When questioned if he would visit Pakistan while visiting out to India, President Trump said, “We are visiting right now, so we won’t really have to. But I wanted to say hello for both a relationship standpoint and we had a great relationship”.
Donald Trump had made his last offer of arbitration in September when top leaders of most countries had gathered in the US for the United Nations General Assembly. Ahead of the meeting with the Pakistan PM Imran Khan, Trump said he was “ready, willing and able” to arbitrate if both Imran Khan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted him to.
India has repeatedly said that Kashmir remains a bilateral issue – a stand that the US agreed last Wednesday when China third time tried to discuss Kashmir’s issue at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
“Most of the members were of the opinion that Kashmir is a bilateral issue. Hence the closed-door meeting didn’t come to any conclusion,” the foreign ministry had said in the meeting.
Meanwhile backing India’s stand over Kashmir is a bilateral issue, earlier this month the US expressed concerns about the detentions of political leaders and the internet cut off.
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