As Prez Trump offers to mediate, questions arise on role in ceasefire

A day after India and Pakistan reached an understanding to stop all military action against each other, the President Donald Trump-led US administration has moved quickly to claim credit for brokering the ceasefire agreement.

- Shashank Mattoo

NEW DELHI:

On Sunday, the US President extended an offer to "work with you both to see if, after a thousand years" the Kashmir issue can be resolved.

The announcement of the ceasefire, after four days of intense armed confrontation triggered by the Pahalgam terror attack, came from Trump and has allowed the White House to notch up a high profile foreign policy win, as it continued complex and uncertain talks with Russia and Iran. Yet, the details of behind-the-scenes diplomacy by the US remain unclear.