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Last Updated:May 01, 2025, 18:18 IST
Pakistan envoy to the US Rizwan Saeed Sheikh asked US President Donald Trump to step in and provide final settlement to the Kashmir Issue with a veiled nuclear threat.
Pakistan envoy to the US Rizwan Saeed Sheikh asked US President Donald Trump to “provide a final settlement” to the Kashmir issue. (IMAGE: REUTERS)
In a plea that carried the weight of a veiled nuclear warning, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States urged US President Donald Trump to intervene in the Kashmir dispute, calling it the “flashiest flashpoint" in global geopolitics and the root cause of tensions with India.
According to Newsweek, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Rizwan Saeed Sheikh said in an interview with the magazine that Donald Trump should step in and de-escalate the tensions between Pakistan and India.
“If we have a president who is standing for peace in the world as a pronounced objective during this administration, to establish a legacy as a peacemaker — or as someone who finished wars, defied wars and played a role in de-confliction, resolving the disputes — I don’t think there is any higher or flashier flash point, particularly in nuclear terms, as Kashmir," Sheikh said.
India has always maintained that issues related to Jammu and Kashmir, if and when they arise, should be resolved bilaterally between New Delhi and Islamabad, but Pakistan has always invited third-parties to intervene in the Kashmir issue.
Following the Pahalgam attack, where terrorists, both trained and based out of Pakistan, killed 26 civilians mostly tourists, Pakistan first invited Iran and then the US to help mediate between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue.
Instead of condemning the Pahalgam attack, Pakistan has chosen to issue nuclear threats to India over threats to hold bilateral agreements in abeyance, including a major water sharing treaty.
Sheikh in his interview with Newsweek, appeared to issue a fresh nuclear threat, when he said: “We are not talking about one or two countries in that neighbourhood who are nuclear-capable. So, that is how grave it is," he said, in a tone similar to Pakistan minister Hanif Abbasi who earlier this week said Pakistan has 170 nuclear missiles aimed at India.
He also said that the Kashmir issue was the root cause of all troubles between India and Pakistan.
India has maintained that there is no issue to mediate with regard to Kashmir with the exceptions of the Indian area in Kashmir that Pakistan illegally occupies, also known as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), and its state sponsorship of terror, which poses a threat to stability in Jammu and Kashmir and the broader south Asian region.
“Until and unless that final settlement is made and the resolutions dictate the prescribed solution is allowed to play out, we will all keep having these problems," Sheikh said. “That’s why we insist on the United States and others playing a role in this situation and getting the de-confliction part activated," he added.
“All the other issues between Pakistan and India are not major issues. We do not want to fight, particularly with a bigger country. We want peace. It suits our economic agenda; it suits our nationhood. It suits every objective that we have currently," he said.
“But we want peace with dignity. We would not want to do it, but if it is imposed, then we would rather die with dignity than survive with indignity".
Pakistan Lobbies To OIC In Desperation
Pakistan’s envoy to the UN, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar, briefed OIC envoys in New York and falsely labelled India’s actions as “provocative". A Pakistani readout of the outreach said the OIC group expressed solidarity with Pakistan and stressed the need for de-escalation through diplomacy and urged a resolution of the Kashmir dispute in line with UN and OIC resolutions.
Location :Washington D.C., United States of America (USA)
First Published:News world Pakistan Envoy Tells Donald Trump To Settle Kashmir Issue, With A Veiled Nuclear Threat: Report
