WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has declared that the conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan would be an “easy one” for him to solve, if he chose to.

His remarks, delivered during a lunch with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, have once again spotlighted his claims about his role in ending global wars.

“I do understand Pakistan attacked or there is an attack going on with Afghanistan, that’s an easy one for me to solve if I have to solve that,” Trump said on Friday, downplaying a conflict that has already claimed several lives and triggered a wave of airstrikes and retaliatory violence.

Pakistan launched fresh air strikes targeting terrorist hideouts inside Afghanistan hours after both countries extended a fragile two-day ceasefire.

The strikes followed a deadly gun-and-

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