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US President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) again claimed to solve at least eight wars, including India and Pakistan, and expressed optimism of resolving another ongoing war between Islamabad and Afghanistan. Speaking to reporters in the White House, Trump asserted that Pakistan carried out deadly attacks on its neighbour, Kabul, and wished to solve the ongoing conflict.

Trump said if he achieves success in solving the Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict, it would be his "number nine", the war that he would solve in his first ten months of tenure. However, he noted that it wouldn’t be an "easy one" for him to solve.

"Although I do understand that Pakistan attacked, or there is an attack going on with Afghanistan. That's an easy one for me to solve if I have to solve it. In the meantime, I have to run the USA, but I love solving wars," Trump said, talking to reporters at the White House.

Pakistan attacks Afghanistan

Pakistan's military carried out strikes in southeastern Afghanistan on Friday, just hours after a two-day ceasefire between the neighbouring countries expired, an Afghan police official said.
The bombings struck southeastern Paktika province and two other areas close to the Pakistan border, and included a strike on a civilian house in Khanadar village that resulted in casualties. Among those killed were eight Afghan cricketers.

Trump claims of solving India-Pak war

Besides, Trump reiterated his repeated assertion of having "solved" eight global conflicts, including the May escalation between India and Pakistan.

During a bilateral lunch with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House, Trump claimed credit for defusing tensions between the two nuclear-armed nations.

"I solved eight wars. Go to Rwanda and the Congo, talk about India and Pakistan... Look at all of the wars that we solved," Trump said.

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"The Prime Minister of Pakistan said I saved millions of lives... Look at Pakistan and India as an example. That would have been a bad one. Two nuclear nations," he added.

India rejected Trump's claims

Trump's comments on the India-Pakistan conflict refer to the escalation in May following India's Operation Sindoor, a series of precision strikes on nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians.

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He further criticised past US administrations for starting wars rather than ending them, saying, "To the best of my knowledge, we've never had a president who solved one war. Not one war. Bush started a war. A lot of them started a war. They didn't settle it. But I saved tens of millions of lives."

Trump had been repeating his claims of playing a key role in helping de-escalate tensions between India and Pakistan on the basis that trade and tariffs were instrumental for the US in preventing the conflicts.

India has consistently refuted the claims made by the US President, reiterating its long-standing position that any issues with Pakistan, including those related to Jammu and Kashmir, are to be resolved bilaterally between the two countries.

 (With inputs from agency)


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