U.S. President Donald Trump has called Indian missile strikes on Pakistani cities and part of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir a shame and hoped that the Indian operation would end soon.
“It’s a shame,” Trump told reporters Tuesday at the White House, as India launched multiple strikes in the backdrop of April 22 killing of 26 people in Indian-controlled Kashmir, that New Delhi said had a Pakistani connection.
Islamabad has firmly rejected the Indian allegation.
Soon after the attack, Pakistani military said it would retaliate tellingly.
“We just heard about it as we were walking in the doors of the oval. Just heard about it,” Trump said in his remarks, commenting on the Indian operation against Pakistani targets that began soon after Tuesday midnight Pakistan Standard Time.
The U.S. president expressed the hope that the operation would end very quickly.
“I guess people knew something was going to happen based on a little bit of the past. They’ve been fighting for a long time. They’ve been fighting for many, many decades. And centuries, actually, if you think about it. I hope it ends very quickly,” Trump said
This is a breaking news, being updated with U.S. reaction.
