President Donald Trump on May 6 responded to rising tensions between India and Pakistan after India launched airstrikes, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio said officials are speaking with both sides.
Pakistan is responding militarily to India’s airstrikes, which followed a terrorist attack that killed 26 people on April 22 in the Indian-administered portion of Kashmir, a Himalayan region bordering Pakistan, India, and China.
All three nations control parts of it, and India and Pakistan both claim full sovereignty over it.
During an exchange with reporters in the White House on Tuesday evening, Trump said that the escalating incident between the two nuclear-armed states is “a shame,” adding, “We just heard about it.”…