Hope it ends very quickly, says Trump; NSA Ajit Doval briefs US counterpart Marco Rubio
Hope it ends very quickly, says Trump; NSA Ajit Doval briefs US counterpart Marco Rubio
Sources said senior Indian officials have spoken to their counterparts in a number of countries to brief them on the steps taken by India. Among these are the US, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Russia, sources said.
Written by Shubhajit Roy
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New Delhi | Updated: May 7, 2025 05:27 IST
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US President Donald Trump (Reuters)
Shortly after India struck nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he hoped “it ends very quickly”.
Asked about the strikes, Trump said at the White House, “It’s a shame. We just heard about it just as we were walking in the doors of the Oval… I guess people knew something was going to happen based on a little bit of the past — they’ve been fighting for a long time… You know they’ve been fighting for many, many decades and centuries, actually if you really think about it. Now, I just hope it ends very quickly.”
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The Indian embassy in the US, meanwhile, released a statement: “Shortly after the strikes, NSA Ajit Doval spoke with US NSA and Secretary of State Marco Rubio and briefed him on the actions taken.”
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Sources said senior Indian officials have spoken to their counterparts in a number of countries to brief them on the steps taken by India. Among these are the US, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Russia, sources said.
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The Indian embassy in Washington DC said: “Terrorists killed 26 civilians in Jammu & Kashmir on April 22 in a brutal and heinous attack. India has credible leads, technical inputs, testimony of the survivors and other evidence pointing towards the clear involvement of Pakistan-based terrorists in this attack.”
“It was expected that Pakistan would take action against terrorists and the infrastructure that supports them. Instead, during the fortnight that has gone by, Pakistan has indulged in denial and made allegations of false flag operations against India,” the embassy’s statement said.
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“India’s actions have been focused and precise. They were measured, responsible and designed to be non-escalatory in nature. No Pakistani civilian, economic or military targets have been hit. Only known terror camps were targeted,” it said.
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Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021.… Read More
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