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Trump’s mediation offer renews focus on Kashmir
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Finally, hopes of restoring Kashmir’s statehood appear to be shelved—for now. Although the Supreme Court gave its blessing to the revocation of J & K ’s special status in 2023, it also ordered the government to reinstate the region’s rights as a regular state.
"This morning at breakfast in Doha, my waiter told me to thank President Trump for him. I asked him why,” Leavitt posted on X. “He told me he is from Kashmir, and he has been unable to return home in recent weeks due to the India-Pakistan conflict," she said.
The neighboring countries exchanged fire for several days after India's missile attack on Pakistan before reaching a ceasefire on Saturday.
Shopkeepers wait for customers at the main bazaar, a day after the ceasefire between Indian and Pakistan was announced, in Jura, near Line of Control, in Neelum Valley, a district of Pakistan’s administered Kashmir, Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/M.D. Mughal)
Far from the missile strikes and drone combat that grabbed the world’s attention, ordinary Kashmiris suffer the heaviest toll of India and Pakistan’s confrontation.
India and Pakistan agreed to stop firing along their border on Saturday, bringing an end to the escalated tensions between the two arch-rivals after multiple strikes were launched against military bases.
The neighbors have been in conflict over the disputed border region since their independence and partition in 1947.
Fears of an all-out conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have abated with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, but the wounds of decades of strife are deep.
Security forces engaged in an encounter with terrorists in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, following a search operation in the Nader Tral area based on specific intelligence about terrorist presence.
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