ISLAMABAD: US President Donald Trump on Friday said that the border tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan were an “easy one” for him to solve, noting, “if I have to solve it.”
Earlier this week, Islamabad and Kabul agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire, following several days of intense cross-border fighting, the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) confirmed.
Talks are scheduled in Doha between the two countries to mediate the situation, aiming to “defuse tensions and establish a mechanism to prevent future border incidents.”
While speaking to reporters as the US president participated in a bilateral lunch with the Ukrainian president, Trump said that the cross-border conflict between the two neighbors was “an easy one for me to solve.”
“If I have to solve it,” he said.
The US president was responding to a question about being termed as the “peacemaker” if he were to end the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
“I solved eight wars,” the US president said, citing the ceasefire that was brokered between India and Pakistan earlier this year.
“Look at all of the wars that we solved, and every time I solved one, they say, ‘If you solve the next one, you're gonna get the Nobel Prize’,” Trump said.
“I didn't get a Nobel Prize,” he added.
The US president said that he doesn’t “care about all that stuff.”
“I just care about saving lives, but this will be number nine,” he said, referring to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
“Every time I solve one, they said Sir, if you solve one more, you're gonna be known as a peacekeeper,” he said.
Trump said that “to the best" of his knowledge, no US president had ever solved one war.
“Bush started a war. A lot of them start wars, but they don't solve the wars. They don't settle them, and especially when they have nothing to do with us,” he said.
While referring to Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s statement, Trump said, “The Prime Minister of Pakistan said I saved millions of lives in interceding” between Pakistan and India.
“You look at Pakistan and India as an example, that would have been a bad one. Two nuclear nations, right?” Trump said.
“I love solving wars,” he said, adding that he likes "stopping people from being killed.”
“I've saved millions and millions of lives, and I think we're going to have success with this war (Ukraine-Russia),” he said.
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