WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed concerns over mounting tensions between India and Pakistan, saying the dispute between the nuclear-armed neighbors will get `figured out, one way or another.

Trump was asked aboard Air Force One about crumbling relations between India and Pakistan as the fallout deepens from a deadly attack on civilians by gunmen in Indian-held Kashmir.

`There have been tensions on that border for 1,500 years so, you know, it`s the same as it has been,` Trump told reporters.

`There`s great tension between Pakistan and India but there always has been,` Trump said, adding, `But they`ll get it figured out, one way or another`.

Meanwhile, US spy chief Tulsi Gabbard on Friday offered to help India hunt down those responsible for this week`s terrorist attack in Pahalgam.

`We stand in solidarity with India in the wake of the horrific Islamist terrorist attack, targeting and killing 26 Hindus in Pahalgam,` Gabbard said in a post on X.

`My prayers and deepest sympathies are with those who lost a loved one, PM Narendra Modi, and with all the people of India. We are with you andsupport you as you hunt down those responsible for this heinous attack,` she said.

Soon after her post, Indian media reported that Gabbard, who oversees all US intelligence agencies as Director of National Intelligence, also sent a similar message to Modi, reiterating US commitment to help India trace the perpetrators of Tuesday`s terrorist attack.

She wrote that America stands in solidarity with India in the wake of the horrific terrorist attack.

A US network, National Public Radio (NPR), noted: `India has not, so far, presented public evidence of Pakistani involvement in the attack. India`s right-wing news channels have blamed Pakistan and featured calls for retaliation.

But some Indian defence analysts caution against armed action.

Still, the attack has prompted a string of sympathetic statements for India from US leaders.

US Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a post on X that `America stands with our dear friends in India and against terrorism in all its forms.

New York Senator and the Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said there could be `no tolerance for the hatred that breeds this kind of unjustifiable violence.

Congressman Tom Suozzi, who recently visited Pakistan, condemned the attack and said, `There is no place for terrorism in our world. It must be stopped.

Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Ranking Member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said: `I hope the authorities will bring the perpetrators to justice.

With input from AFP