India, May 1 -- Pakistan has reportedly urged the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to help defuse tensions with India in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack.

In an interview with Newsweek magazine, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, called Kashmir the "flashiest flashpoint" in global geopolitics and the root cause of tensions with India. Sheikh added that Donald Trump should intervene.

"If we have a president who is standing for peace in the world as a pronounced objective during this administration, to establish a legacy as a peacemaker - or as someone who finished wars, defied wars and played a role in de-confliction, resolving the disputes - I don't think there is any higher or flash...