US President Donald Trump has claimed that India and Pakistan have been “fighting for 1,500 years” over Kashmir, amid the recent rise in tensions between the two rival South Asian nations.

Last week, an attack in Pahalgam in Indian-occupied Kashmir killed 26 people, with Indian tourists being the primary targets in the shooting claimed by the Resistance Front group, which India claims is linked to and supported by Pakistan.

Trump’s comments have since been ridiculed by many as a gaffe, particularly due to the fact that the establishment of Pakistan and the partition of the Indian subcontinent took place in 1947. That was barely 78 years ago, in contrast to the president’s remarks of the conflict over Kashmir being 1,500-years-old, making it historically impossible.