US President Donald Trump said he hopes that "it ends very quickly" after India launched Operation Sindoor early on Wednesday in response to the Pahalgam terror attack two weeks ago.
"It's a shame, we just heard about it just as we were walking in the doors of the Oval," Trump told reporters when asked about the attacks between India and Pakistan. "I guess people knew something was going to happen based on a little bit of the past."
"They've been fighting for a long time. They've been fighting for many, many decades and centuries, actually, if you really think about it," he said. "I just hope it ends very quickly."
The comments come after the Indian armed forces targeted terrorist infrastructures in Pakistan in precision strikes carried out after midnight, according to a statement issued in the wee hours of Wednesday.
The Indian forces targeted a total of nine terrorist infrastructure sites in Pakistan and PoK, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence said on social media platform X.
"Our actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature. No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted. India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution," the defence ministry added.
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