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Reasonably decent news on India-Pakistan conflict: Donald Trump

US president Donald Trump suggested that tensions between India and Pakistan, which have been rising on a near-daily basis since the February 14 Pulwama attack, will be coming to an end soon.

"We have I think reasonably attractive news from Pakistan and India," Donald Trump said in Hanoi, Vietnam after a failed summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Donald Trump said that the United States was "involved" in mediating between India and Pakistan and in "trying to have them stop". "And we have some reasonably decent news... and I think it is going to end... it has been going on for a long time," Trump said, referring to the heightened tensions between India and Pakistan.

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