India, April 26 -- US President Donald Trump on Friday reacted to the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam while boarding an Air Force One flight to Rome, and stated India and Pakistan have seen 1,500 years of tense relations.

On April 22, gunmen opened fire at Baisaran meadow near Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, killing 26 people, mostly tourists, an attack suspected to be carried out by terrorists with links to Pakistan.

Trump, while answering a question on the terrorist attack said, "I am very close to India and I'm very close to Pakistan, and they've had that fight for a thousand years in Kashmir. Kashmir has been going on for a thousand years, probably longer than that. That was a bad one (terrorist attack)."

He proceede...