A senior US State Department official has said that Kashmir remains a “direct issue” between India and Pakistan, and the United States has no interest in asserting itself in the matter.

The senior State Department official said Wednesday that it is a “longstanding” policy of the US that Kashmir is a “direct issue” between India and Pakistan.

The official added that if the US is asked to offer its good offices on any issue, it is ready to help.

US President Donald Trump has “enough crises” on his hands and “we leave that (issue of Kashmir) up to India and Pakistan to solve,” the official told reporters at a briefing. “We have no interest in asserting ourselves between India and Pakistan.”

In his address to the UN General Assembly, Trump declared again that he had stopped the conflict be

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