India, May 11 -- Congress MP Manish Tewari on Sunday emphasised the need to "educate" US President Donald Trump after the latter offered to mediate between India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue, commenting that the dispute isn't a "biblical 1000-year-old conflict".

"Someone in the US establishment needs to seriously educate their President Donald Trump that Kashmir is not a biblical 1000-year-old conflict. It started on October 22, 1947 - 78 years ago, when Pakistan invaded the Independent State of Jammu & Kashmir, which subsequently was ceded to India in' FULL' by Maharaja Hari Singh on October 26, 1947, that includes areas illegally occupied by Pakistan till now. How difficult is it to grasp this simple fact?" he wrote on X....