Trump says US trying to help Pakistan, India defuse tensions

Hanoi:  President Donald Trump on Thursday said  US was trying to help Pakistan and India  defuse the situation, after days of escalating confrontation between the two nuclear armed nations  seemed to  bring them on the brink  of war.

Addressing a press conference, the US president said : "We have reasonably  attractive news from India and Pakistan. We have been involved in trying to help them stop. And we have some reasonably  decent news.

He said:  I think hopefully that's going to an end. That has been going on for a long time, decades and decades. There is a lot of dislike, unfortunately. So we have been in the middle trying to help them both out so we can gent some organization and some peace. And i think probably that  is going to be happening  .".

on Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a statement after calls with his two counterparts, urged restraint from both sides as Pakistan  shot down Indian warplane.