While speaking at an event with business leaders in Tokyo on Tuesday, Trump stated: “Seven planes were shot down, seven brand new, beautiful planes were shot down, and they were going at it… two big nuclear powers.”
The US President reiterated his claim that he used trade to settle the war between India and Pakistan.
“I said to Prime Minister Modi, and I said to the prime minister, a very nice man, a very good man, and the Field Marshal over in Pakistan, I said, ‘Look, we’re not going to do any trade if you’re going to be fighting,'” Trump recalled.
Trump mentioned that both India and Pakistan argued that the war had nothing to do with trade with the US.
“I said this, it has a lot to do with the other — two nuclear powers — we get that nuclear dust all over the place… And we said, ‘No, we’re not doing any deals if you’re going to fight.’ And within about 24 hours, that was the end of that,” the US President said.
Since May 10, when Trump first announced that India and Pakistan had agreed to an “immediate” ceasefire after Washington mediated talks, he has frequently claimed he “helped settle” the conflict.
India has consistently maintained that the agreement to end hostilities with Pakistan was reached following direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the two armies.
The conflict involved India launching Operation Sindoor on May 7, targeting terror groups in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack. India and Pakistan agreed to end the fighting on May 10 after four days of heavy cross-border strikes. (PTI & TNIE)
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