How India threads the diplomatic needle - courting favour with Trump over issues like trade while asserting its own interests in the Kashmir conflict - will depend in large part on domestic politics and could determine the future prospects for conflict in Kashmir.

The president's comments came after the two countries agreed to a ceasefire following weeks of escalating clashes.

For a presidency with precious-little foreign policy expertise at its fingertips, the Trump administration wasted no time this weekend wading into possibly the most complex international thicket on the global map.