How India threads the diplomatic needle - courting favour with Trump over issues like trade while asserting its own interests in the Kashmir conflict - will depend in large part on domestic politics and could determine the future prospects for conflict in Kashmir.

The president's comments came after the two countries agreed to a ceasefire following weeks of escalating clashes.

President Trump announced Saturday that India and Pakistan had agreed to a cease-fire, after four days of the most widespread fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbors in decades. “After a long night of talks mediated by the United States,