Donald Trump’s offers to mediate the cycle of conflict in India Pakistan

The Donald Trump administration to prevent the Indian missile strikes against Pakistan from moving to a nuclear confrontation, has provided mediation in the major international crisis that has exploded since the opening.

The US president said he hoped “they can stop now.”

“If I can do anything to help, I will be there,” he said on Wednesday. “My position is that I am in line with both, and I know very well and I want to see them working.”

India and Pakistan They face their worst conflict in more than two decades, after New Delhi struck what was called “terrorist infrastructure” and Islamabad said it had shot down the Indian planes and promised to take revenge for the missile strike.

A spokesman for the Pakistani armed forces, Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, said on Thursday that the country’s air defenses shot down 25 Indian drones near several cities – including the main urban centers Karachi and Lahur – which killed a civilian and hit four soldiers, which led to Pakistan in Pakistan this week killed 32 and 61 injuries.

He described the alleged drone attack as “another blatant military action of aggression against Pakistan.” Indian officials did not respond to a request for comment.

Meanwhile, Indian officials said on Thursday that the retaliatory strikes on Wednesday by the Pakistani army on the Indian side of the control line had killed its actual borders in Kashmir 13 civilians and wounded 59 years.

Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, Be in contact With both countries, he spoke separately to his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal Faisal bin Farhan, on Wednesday to discuss how to defuse the conflict.

But although the United States worked as a mediator in previous crises in South Asia, which led to a calming influence that helped avoid explicit war, Washington has distracted its attention by Ukraine and Gaza to be able to solve the Saddam of India and Pakistani, at least in its early stages.

Experts said that Washington’s messages since the attack were inconsistent. The United States has condemned the trigger force for Indian missile strikes – a Terrorist attack In Paalgam, in the disputed Kashmir area, on April 22, 26 people were killed.

But in the days after the attack, Rubio urged both Indian and Pakistani governments to work together to “cancel tensions” and “maintain peace and security in South Asia.”

This did not decrease well in New Delhi. “When something like this happens, both sides are seen to cancel manufacturing in India as asking for Indian restraint, and this is not something the United States expects, for example, Israel after a terrorist attack.”

Meanwhile, India said that during an invitation on May 1 between US Defense Secretary Beit Higseth and his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh, “Washington has repeated strong support for the US government to combat India against terrorism” and “supports India’s right to defend itself.”

This suggested green light for Indian revengeMadan said.

After that, three days after the accident, Trump noted that the two countries “will get them in one way or another,” adding: “There is great tension between Pakistan and India, but there was always.”

Mood Youssef, an older colleague at the Thought Center at the Balfar Center at Harvard University and former National Security Adviser in Pakistan, said that Washington’s approach to emerging tensions after the terrorist attack on April 22 was “more than previous crises.”

“They may have calculated that another person would mediate, and no one has done,” Youssef said. “But there is no other country, but the United States can force India and Pakistan to cancel the escalation.”

Youssef said that the United States “has” designed diplomatic efforts “to resolve previous conflicts between the two countries, even with non -American allies such as Russia and China” falling into the line “behind the initiatives. But it was not clear whether the same would happen this time.

The conflict comes at a time when the United States is trying to deepen its relationship with both India and Pakistan. New Delhi and Washington have an extensive strategic, defensive and technological partnership, which aims significantly to the budget of China, and the two countries there are Participate in talks in a bilateral trade agreement It aims to formulate Trump’s threat to a 26 percent “mutual” tariff on Indian goods.

India has taken pain to keep the United States in view of the missile attack. Shortly after Pakistan beating, Ajit Dofal, National Security Adviser in India, spoke with Rubio as well as his counterparts in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Japan, according to an Indian government source.

Pakistan was a traditional decisive buyer of American military services and is also a regional security partner, although this role has shrunk since the Taliban was directed to a government backed by Western in Afghanistan in 2021.

“His country will welcome” any role “, the United States and other partners can play them in mediation in tensions with India.

“The United States is a very important strategic partner,” he said. “We welcome any of our partners … to come and help you are independent arbitrators at this time stage.

Shaybay additional reports by Humza Gilani