The Pakistani government thanked on Sunday the interest of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, for helping to resolve the historic dispute maintained by India and Pakistan for the sovereignty of Kashmir, a region in the Himalayas that has given rise to several wars between both nuclear powers.
“We appreciate the provision expressed by President Trump to support the efforts aimed at resolution of the JAMMU and Kashmir dispute,” Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The conflict dates back to the independence of India and Pakistan of the British empire in 1947, and according to the Pakistani statement, “it has serious implications for peace and security in southern Asia and beyond.”
Hours before, Trump had said in a publication in the social network Truth Social that would work with New Delhi and Islamabad to try to reach a solution “after ‘thousand years'”.
The Cashmiro region, of Muslim majority, was one of the known as princely states of the British Raj, governed by a Maharajá, and during the partition of India and Pakistan could choose to join either of the two countries or remain independent.
But a series of internal political events that ended up unleashing the first Indo-Pakistani war, in 1947, concluded with the region divided into two parts, each of them administered by India and Pakistan, which at the same time claimed the rest of the territory.
The conflict culminated in 1948 thanks to the UN intervention, which in a resolution issued among other things the demilitarization of the region -which was not effective -and that, once that step is fulfilled, India should commit to be celebrated “as soon as possible” a plebiscite in Kashmir on its incorporation into any of these two countries.
