Donald: Don't want to say I did, but helped settle India-Pak problem

DOHA: US President Donald Trump on Thursday repeated his claim yet again that he helped ease tensions between India and Pakistan.

“…And by the way, I don't want to say I did, but I sure as hell helped settle the problem between Pakistan and India last week, which was getting more and more hostile,” he said while addressing US military personnel at al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar. “And all of a sudden, you'll start seeing missiles of a different type. And we got it settled. I hope, I hope I don't walk out of here and two days later find out that it's not settled, but I think it is settled,” Trump said.

He also again claimed that he talked to the countries about trade. “Let's do trade instead of do war. And Pakistan was very happy with that, and India was very happy with that, and I think they're on the way, you know, they have been fighting for about 1,000 years in all fairness,” he said.

Everybody was very happy: US Prez on ‘ceasefire’

So I said, you know, I could settle that up. I can settle anything. Let me set it up. Let’s get them all together. How long have you been fighting? About 1,000 years. Oh, that’s a lot. That’s a tough one. They’ve been fighting for a long time, but we got that settled. Everybody was very happy. I’ll tell you that looked like it was really going to be escalating out of control,” he added.

Last week, in a post on Truth Social, Trump offered to work with India and Pakistan for a “solution” on Kashmir, while crediting Washington for helping the two nations arrive at the “historic and heroic decision” of stopping the conflict.