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India-Pakistan ceasefire: US President Donald Trump has once claimed credit for mediating last month’s India-Pakistan ceasefire, asserting that his purported intervention helped prevent a potential nuclear war between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. Talking the reporters aboard the Air Force One, Trump claimed he used trade as a weapon to force New Delhi and Islamabad to “immediately stop the fighting”.
“You know, I did something that people don’t talk about, and I also don’t talk about it much, but we solved a big problem with India and Pakistan, a potential nuclear problem. I talked to Pakistan, I talked to India, their leaders are very good, but they were fighting among themselves and they could have had a nuclear war,” Trump said.
The US President said he warned India and Pakistan that the US would stop trade with both countries if the fighting continued.
“Both are nuclear powers, strong nuclear countries and I talked about trade and said if you guys are going to drop bombs on each other, then we will not trade. After which both stopped fighting and I immediately stopped that war. Otherwise this war was going too far. And hopefully it did not turn into a nuclear war, but it could have turned into a nuclear war. In fact it could have turned into a nuclear war in the next round but we stopped it and I want to appreciate the leaders of both countries,” he said.
Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that he brokered a ceasefire deal between India and Pakistan on May 10 last month after tensions between the two neighbors escalated post India’s Operation Sindoor. While Pakistan has thanked Trump for playing a major role in the ceasefire, India has vehemently refuted the US’ President’s claims, and reiterated the agreement for cessation of hostilities was bilateral in nature.
Trump’s claim has also been backed by Russia. Yuri Ushakov, assistant to Russian President Vladimir Putin, supported Trump’s claim and said that his direct intervention helped end the India-Pakistan conflict.
Ushakov said this was also revealed in a phone conversation between Trump and Putin in which “the Middle East was discussed, as well as the armed conflict between India and Pakistan , which has been stopped with the personal participation of President Trump.”
Meanwhile, the US President’s claim has triggered a sharp diplomatic reaction in India. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who recently led an all-party delegation to the US, said he raised Trump’s mediation claims directly with US Vice President JD Vance during his talks.
“The meeting with Vice President Vance was very good and very clear. I think we made our position clear on this question of mediation and Vice President Vance understood our point of view completely,” Tharoor said.
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