Chandigarh, May 13 -- Congress MP from Chandigarh Manish Tewari on Tuesday said that "third party mediation" between India and Pakistan was a reality, the only difference now was that US President Donald Trump was taking credit openly.
In a long tweet, he said, "Call it by whatever name -- back channelling , brokering, mediating , arbitrating," adding that from 1947-1972 Indo Pakistan ties or lack of them whenever they reached a flashpoint were undergirded by UNSC resolutions
He said Trump was only stating "the facts as they were". "If you were to rewind to whenever there has been a flashpoint in the India-Pakistan dynamic, there has been back-channelling or third-party mediation. You can use whichever terminology gives you a more respect...