Day After PM Modi's Tough Talk, Trump Foresakes Credit Claim For Indo-Pak Ceasefire: 'Two Very Smart Leaders...'
US President Donald Trump, for the first time in recent weeks, did not take credit for the ceasefire between India and Pakistan saying two "very smart leaders" decided not to continue a war that could have turned nuclear.
He remarked while speaking to the media in the Oval Office after hosting Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, Asim Munir, for lunch at the White House on Wednesday.
“They were both here, but I was with Modi a few weeks ago. He was here actually, but now we speak to him. And I'm so happy that two smart people, plus you know, people on their staff too, but two smart people, two very smart people decided not to keep going with that war," Trump said.
"That could have been a nuclear war. Those are two nuclear powers, big ones, big, big nuclear powers, and they decided that.” This is the first time in weeks when Trump did not take credit for stopping the military conflict between India and Pakistan," he added.
The US President has repeatedly taken credit for the India-Pakistan ceasefire on May 10 after Operation Sindoor saying he "helped settle" tensions between the two countries.
He claimed on multiple occasions that he told the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours that America would do a “lot of trade” with them if they stopped the conflict.
Modi and Trump were scheduled to meet on the sidelines of G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Canada. However, the US President had cut short his trip and had a 35-minute phone conversation with Modi before departing Kananaskis and wrapping up his first visit to Canada in a decade.
Following the telephonic conversation between the two leaders, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, in a video message from Kananaskis, said Modi conveyed to Trump that at “no point” during Operation Sindoor was there any discussion, at any level, on an India-US trade deal or any proposal for mediation by the US between India and Pakistan.
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