© Reuters/Jonathan ErnstUS President Donald Trump • Pakistani PM Imran Khan • July, 2019
Comment: The legacy media never saw this coming!
After mocking Trump for offering to mediate between India and Pakistan over the status of Kashmir and the two nuclear-armed powers' recent dangerous border clashes, suggesting he was ignorant for world affairs and wholly incapable of doing so, the Pakistani PM has accepted his offer...
Donald Trump should help Islamabad and New Delhi resolve their differences over disputed Kashmir, the Pakistani PM said. The US president earlier claimed his mediation was requested by India, but Indian officials denied this.
"President Trump offered to mediate on Kashmir. This is the time to do so as the situation deteriorates there," Khan tweeted on Sunday.
He was referring to what Trump said during their present meeting, suggesting that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to be a mediator between India and Pakistan. Indian officials denied such a request was ever made and said India will only speak to Pakistan about the Kashmir dispute.
Comment: So Trump may have lied about Modi being the first to suggest it. What's interesting is India's reaction to this 'he said-she said'...
Khan's appeal to Trump comes amid the latest flare up in Kashmir, a border region at the heart of the decades-old dispute between Pakistan and India. Indian authorities on Friday said they had evidence of an imminent attack by militants backed by the Pakistani government and that at least five of them had been killed in a firefight.
The warning sparked panic among residents and pilgrim visitors of the Indian-controlled territories, prompting thousands to flee in a hurry, according to local government officials.
Pakistan, which denies providing any support for militant forces seeking to topple India's current control over parts of Kashmir, rejected the assentation [sic assertion] of an imminent attack as "blatant lies."
Islamabad on Saturday also accused the Indian military of using indiscriminate cluster munitions in shelling across the contested Line of Control (LOC). Such munitions killed two civilians and wounded another 11, the statement said. New Delhi denied the allegations.
The Muslim-majority region has been contested by the two nuclear-armed nations since the partition of British India, with two major wars fought for control over it since then. This year India and Pakistan engaged in their first direct dogfight in decades over Kashmir, which marked an escalation of tensions.
And look at recent pictures of Modi, the Hindu fanatic, hugging Netanyahu, the Jewish fanatic. Israel is behind it all. So the Kashmir dispute will never end. Israel will not permit that.
There even seem to have been small Israeli militia groups directly involved. So if India blames Islamic terrorists for mad attacks, yes, there were terrorists, but Islamic???? In one notorious case, yes. Others?