TRUMP TERMS INDIA, PAKISTAN SITUATION ‘DANGEROUS’

WASHINGTON: A day after the UN Security Council passed a “pathbreaking” statement condemning the terror attack in Pulwama, US President Donald Trump said relations between India and Pakistan were in a “very delicate balance” and called for an end to killings in Kashmir.

“A lot of people were just killed and we want to see it stopped,” Trump told reporters before a meeting with a visiting Chinese delegation for trade talks. “We’re very much involved in that.”

The US joined other P-5 countries to push the UNSC press statement, overcoming stiff resistance from China that for the first time condemned violence in Jammu and Kashmir, appealed to other countries to support the Indian government on Kashmirrelated violence and treated an attack on Indian forces as part of global terrorism. India is not on the council now.

The US is also expected to join a new France-led effort to designate Masood Azhar, the founder of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-mohammed that has claimed responsibility for the Pulwama killings, as a global terrorist under UNSC resolution 1267.

This will be the fourth such attempt when moved formally and is expected to run into problems with China, which foiled all the previous efforts.

Trump went on to say that because of the killings there is a “terrible thing going on right now between Pakistan and India” .