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1] Shimla Agreement
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Donald Trump in a recent statement claimed that PM Modi had asked him to be the mediator in the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. India outrightly rejected Trump’s claims saying that no such request was made by the Prime Minister. Trump’s Kashmir claim has, however, turned into a huge controversy, as it violates the 1972 Shimla Agreement.
The United States has always previously maintained that the Kashmir issue must be solved bilaterally by India and Pakistan. India has also strictly maintained that its Kashmir dispute with Pakistan is a bilateral one and no third party has any role in it. Hence, Trump’s recent statement marks a major shift from the US’s earlier stand on the issue.
The Simla Agreement, or Shimla Agreement, was signed between India and Pakistan on 2 July 1972 in Shimla, the capital city of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.It followed from the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971 that led to the independence of Bangladesh, which was earlier known as East Pakistan and was part of the territory of Pakistan. India entered the war as an ally of Bangladesh which transformed the war into an Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The agreement was ratified by the Parliaments of both the nations in the same year.[citation needed]