Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the Pulwama terror attack that left 40 CRPF personnel dead, was carried out by a Kashmiri youth and that Islamabad had got nothing to do with it.

Khan added even though terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) claimed responsibility for the attack, said to have its base in Pakistan, the country should not be blamed.

"A Kashmiri boy was radicalised after the brutalities of the Indian security forces and he carried out the attack, but suddenly Pakistan came into the limelight," Imran Khan said, on Tuesday, after a bilateral meeting with United States President Donald Trump at the White House.

For the unversed, as many as 40 CRPF personnel were killed on February 14 when a CRPF convoy was rammed into by a Jaish terrorist -- leading the relations between India and Pakistan to plummet even further.

On February 26, India conducted an airstrike on Pakistan's Balakot to destroy terror haven of Jaish-e-Mohammed.

A day later, India and Pakistan engaged in an aerial dogfight with the respective air forces, leading to the capture of IAF officer Abhinandan Varthaman.

Abhinandan was later released by Pakistan as a "peace gesture".

Imran Khan's US trip has been hitting headlines ever since it began.

Trump landed in a major soup when he said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to mediate between India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir dispute.

This was followed by Imran Khan admitting to the fact that as many as 40 militant groups have been operating from the soil of Pakistan -- but all under the previous governments.

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