India Pakistan Bilateral  

President Ram Nath Kovind has left India for a 3-Nation tour including Switzerland, Iceland and Slovenia. The President’s meeting is aimed at strengthening bilateral ties. The visit comes even after Pakistan refused India’s request to use its airspace for President Kovind’s flight. 

External Affairs minister Jaishankar who is in the Thailand capital to attend a number of conferences including ASEAN meeting informed his American counterpart Mike Pompeo that any discussion on Kashmir, if at all warranted, will only be with Pakistan and only bilaterally. 

External affairs minister S Jaishankar in a tweet has made it very clear that the Kashmir issue remains a bilateral issue and that India doesn’t require US President Donald Trump’s intervention. 

Congress leader Salman Khurshid has added to the already confused statements by Donald Trump, wherein he said that maybe Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the US President to “meditate” and he may have heard it as “mediate”

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's response comes after Indian government denied Trump's claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to mediate. India has reiterated that it is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan.

The US President Trump had earlier claimed that PM Narendra Modi had sought his mediation in the India-Pakistan issue; but India has refuted the claims.