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New Delhi: India and Pakistan are likely to engage in an "armed conflict" in 2026, owing to "heightened terrorist activity", a report by a US think tank said.
The Council on Foreign Relations report further said that the Trump administration had "sought to end" the conflict between New Delhi and Islamabad in May. The think tank report was based on a survey involving American foreign policy experts.
"The second Trump administration has sought to end many ongoing conflicts, such as those in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Gaza Strip, and Ukraine, as well as between India and Pakistan and Cambodia and Thailand," the report said.
India-Pak border tension
Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated in May this year after the two South Asian neighbours had a brief military conflict. The conflict began after India launched a military action against terror establishments in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in response to the Pahalgam terror attack.
On April 23, Pakistan-based terrorists stormed a tourist spot in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, killing 26 civilians. A few weeks after the terror attack, the Indian Army launched Operation Sindoor, targeting terrorist camps in Pakistan and PoK, killing over 100 terrorists and inflicting heavy damage to their establishments.
The four days of conflict ended on May 10 after the Director General of Military Operations of the Indian Army was approached by his Pakistani counterpart, seeking de-escalation.
Trump's repeated claims of ending May conflict
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that he brokered peace between India and Pakistan during the May military conflict. New Delhi has, however, refuted the claims and maintained that there was no role of any foreign country or leader in easing border tensions with Islamabad.
Trump on Tuesday reiterated his claim of having resolved the India-Pakistan conflict during his bilateral meeting with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Settled eight wars, but we don’t know the countries....Do I get credit for it? No. I did eight of them. India. How about India and Pakistan. So I did eight of them,” Trump said.
