Trump offers to mediate Kashmir dispute as fragile ceasefire holds after deadly clashes

ISLAMABAD: US President Donald Trump offered on Sunday to mediate the decades-old Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, coupling his proposal with a promise to “substantially” increase trade with both nuclear-armed nations as a tenuous ceasefire took hold after a week of missiles, drones and air strikes that killed at least 66 people.

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Balance restored

A US-brokered ceasefire has paused the latest clash between India and Pakistan, nuclear-armed rivals whose rivalry nearly spiraled into disaster. Yet this tenuous truce reveals a seismic shift: Pakistan, long outmatched by India’s military might, not only stood firm but gained a strategic edge, upending South Asia’s power dynamics.

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